The Reign of Wolf 21

这并非又一部猎奇式的野生动物纪实。真正让读者反复回味的，是头狼21身上那种罕见的张力：他骁勇、贪婪地渴望生存，却从不像其他头狼那样处决败方对手，对伴侣更是忠贞到近乎固执。读者最难忘的，是他与妻子42之间生死相依的情感——42阵亡时，读者跟着作者一同心碎，又执拗地希望21明白她是战斗到底，而非抛弃了他。正是这种对忠诚与家族近乎执念的坚守，让许多读者在合上书时泪眼婆娑，甚至忍不住以这头狼的标准去丈量人间的情感。它适合所有相信‘野性之中亦有温情’的人。

RICK MCINTYRE has spent more than fifty years watching wolves in America’s national parks, twenty-five of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings and educated the public about the park’s most famous wolves. He has spoken about the Yellowstone wolves with 60 Minutes, NPR, and CBC, and he is profiled extensively in Nate Blakeslee’s American Wolf and in international publications. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana.