The Church of Wolves - Softcover

Kukovich, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990314871 ISBN 13: 9780990314875

Verlag: Neverland Publishing Company, LLC, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

When the killings began, they first went unnoticed, buried in the decimation of the Great War. But soon the soldiers in the trenches began whispering about the horror that stalked them. It was a terror so great that their bitterly opposed armies joined forces to combat it. Together, they would hunt through the dark forest of Lithuania to fight their murderous, incomprehensible enemy.

World War I—In the winter darkness of 1916-1917, hordes of wolves began to attack the German and Russian armies stalemated across the eastern no man’s land of Lithuania. Enemies of war Captain Kurt Shaffer and Lieutenant Ivan Andronov, officers respectively serving the German and Russian Empires, are ordered to join together and discover the reason for the wolf attacks. Their efforts are aided by Kristina Kleiza, a local peasant girl. Kristina becomes their guide, and much more, as she desperately searches for her grandfather, Petras. A teacher and local elder-turned-recluse, Petras has established a solitary hermitage in a ruined church hidden in the deepest forest of the region. But he has mysteriously fled the church and Kristina fears that he is wandering alone in the frost-bound forest and has become easy prey for the increasingly savage wolf packs.

What inexplicable circumstances could produce this mass terror and inspire such a union between bitterly opposed enemies? Why would such large numbers of wolves attack armed soldiers? Why was the unnatural behavior of the wolves so unlike their instinctive, predatory pattern?

The soldiers and Kristina discover the answers to all their questions, but in a way they never dreamed as they also uncover the greatest secret of an ancient culture: the dark mystery that has slept for so long in the crumbling walls of a humble, ruined church.

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Barry Kukovich is a native of western Pennsylvania and has resided there most of his life. From his early years he was greatly influenced by the wilderness regions of Appalachia and New England, particularly their white water rivers and mountain forests. He is a 1975 graduate of Duquesne University and has a graduate degree from Seton Hall University.

In his professional career, he was a member of a National Red Cross disaster team for five years and among the many crises in which he served, he considers the 1977 Johnstown Flood and the 1979 3-Mile Island Nuclear Disaster as the most challenging events of his life. After the Red Cross, he entered a communications career with the utility industry, again largely involved with crisis planning.

For over forty years, his avocation has been martial arts, and this study remains as one of his greatest passions along with his love of history. He drew heavily on his historical studies of warfare and ancient religion to write his first novel The Church of Wolves, which is set during WWI and based on a true incident. He and his wife reside in Pittsburgh, PA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Neverland Publishing Company, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0990314871
• ISBN 13: 9780990314875
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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