Joe May, an overgrown youth with a skinny neck and a large adams apple, had eaten only once in the last thirty six hours and was feeling desperate. when he provided a small service for Hugh Massey, owner of the most famous husky in alaska, all Joe had in mind was a possible reward. He'd heard that Massey's life revolved around that dog, and a chance to murder the man he hated with an undying rage, but he never thought he would become the bait massey needed to lure his enemy into a deadly trap a trap that would setoff an epic trek across hundreds of miles of frozen country to a river of ice know as the yukon