“Journalist Devereaux’s eye-opening debut explores the contentious culture wars over wolf reintroduction in the western U.S. . . . It’s a bloody tale of American division and a scapegoated animal stuck in the middle.” —Publishers Weekly

“A journalistic exposé and political history of the war over wolves in Yellowstone country . . . [A] thoughtful narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Come for the wolves but stay for the insight: In Ryan Devereaux’s capable hands, the Yellowstone wolves emerge as a radioactive analogue for the deepening political divide in American culture. Co-existence with wolves is an active fault line in Americans’ concept of themselves in relation to the wild, and Devereaux negotiates this fractious landscape with diligence and grace. The wolves and the humans of America’s Northern Rockies are equally fortunate to have such a compassionate and fair-minded chronicler.” —John Vaillant, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Tiger and Fire Weather

“If you want to understand politics in the American West, you’ve got to understand wolves. Ryan Devereaux’s The Hunt is a wonderful guide to both. Deeply researched, even-handed, and clearly written, it’s an indispensable resource for those trying to solve the Gordian knot of wildlife management in an age of political polarization. Highly recommended!” —Nate Blakeslee, New York Times bestselling author of American Wolf

“Ryan Devereaux has written a magnificently disturbing page-turner about the West's most political animal and he draws an inescapable conclusion: no wild creature in America exposes the cold depths of human nature like the wolf.” —Dan Flores, New York Times bestselling author of Coyote America and Wild New World

“The Trump era is sad in so many ways, the antipathy to anything wild being one of the biggest. This book describes in deep detail, and with considerable temperance, how we've let the most selfish human instincts control far too much.” —Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun

“To decode the politics of the modern American West, read Ryan Devereaux’s exquisitely reported The Hunt, in which the story of a single season in Yellowstone becomes a story about us all.” —Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

“Epic in its scope and meticulous in its reporting, The Hunt is an enthralling, heart-rending account of the dark passions and venomous politics that swirl around Yellowstone's storied wolves. With sensitivity and wisdom, Ryan Devereaux investigates the brutal, state-sanctioned persecution of these iconic animals—a tragedy that epitomizes the cultural wars that have long roiled the American West.” —Ben Goldfarb, award-winning author of Eager and Crossings

“Part true crime and part environmental jeremiad, Ryan Devereaux has written a history of the culture wars through the lens of a single species and the world’s first national park. His writing is gutsy, tactile, blood-on-snow. You won’t be disappointed.” —Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Engineering Eden: A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks

“The Hunt is a riveting tale that teaches us as much about the complexities of human society as it does about Canis lupus. The wolf, in Ryan Devereaux’s brilliant telling, is intimately entangled not only with American folklore, history, and ecology but with our increasingly polarized politics as well.” —Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn