From a top secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose.

When Travis Cornell encounters a dog while hiking, he quickly realizes that it is not a conventional canine. Along with this knowledge comes the insight that something frightful is stalking both him and the dog. Soon, Cornell realizes that his discovery has immersed him in a cover-up involving the fearsome results of genetic manipulation.

Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.

From a top secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose.

"On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever, who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a friend-- a dog of alarming intelligence-- and a threat that could only have come from the darkest corners of man's imagination."--Page 4 of cover

Travis Cornell had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind's darkest creation.

Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.

Out of a governement laboratory so sinsister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the live of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from the ordinary animals they once were. To the scientists who fashioned them they are the end products of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence and they want them back. To the people who encounter them they spell either doom or a touching new kind of love. At the climax of this heart-stopping novel they will inevitably meet.