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"A newly recruited federal wildlife agent, Marion Decker, assigned to investigate a rash of endangered species slaughter in the Beartooth wilderness surrounding Yellowstone Park, is instrumental in uncovering evidence that the brazen killing is part of a west coast operation that traffics in animal parts and narcotics. But her role in the investigation embroils her in a hotly contested Senate race, with increased demands for her to bring leading suspect Russell Nye, recently paroled after serving 15 years for a notorious rape, to justice. However, as the investigation intensifies and the net narrows, Decker begins to suspect that Nye is not the right man, especially after a bizarre and dangerous encounter with him in a terrible blizzard. Her suspicions begin to fall instead on a shady associate of one of the Senatorial candidates. Resisting intensifying orders to entrap Nye, and pressure from her trusted partner about her high-minded propensity, highlighted in past failings, to defy authority, her case is turned upside down when the very man she suspects is found murdered."