Publisher's Synopsis
Alec Katts was searching for freedom and meaning in the crumbling civilization of the mid Twenty-First century. His search brought him into conflict with the police state, which had him imprisoned and deported to work colonies in the Canadian Rockies. There, due to overcrowding in the work camps, he was left to perish in the Rocky Mountain Trench. Instead of dying, Alec found freedom and meaning in the wilderness. And he found that freedom meant commitment and responsibility to family and community. He found love, adopted two daughters and had a baby on the way. And he fought ignorance in his own community, in the bands of robbers who preyed upon the mountainfolk, and within himself. He was called upon to find an answer to the conflict between civilization and wilderness, an answer which he could not find until everything he held dear was at risk. And he was left a member of two separate worlds, without a home in either.
