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| Into the Mouth of the Wolf | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Breur Media Corporation
Category: EBooks
List Price: $9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 69647
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 471
ASIN: B0017OBECQ
Publication Date: April 3, 2008
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Product Description
Russell Shepard was just a boy when the first footage of a living werewolf was authenticated and broadcast. As he grew, the lycanthropic outbreak was a constant. During Russell's adolescence he watched with the rest of the world as "outbreak" turned into "epidemic." Now, as an adult, the epidemic had become a pandemic, reaching every nation and turning the scientific community on its head. Still, those unfortunate few who'd been contaminated remained a notable minority. Spectacular research facilities peppered the globe, designed to study the infection. Specially trained urban tactical units protected the population at large, capturing and containing the creatures for analysis until a cure could be developed. All of this fascinated Russell, as it did everyone he knew, but there was an entire global community dedicated to helping the victims of lycanthropic infection and eventually producing a cure. There was no need to panic. At least that was what Russell had been told all his life by television personalities and politicians alike. Just don't do anything stupid. Follow the rules and the odds of encountering an actual werewolf would remain blissfully remote. And so Russell's consideration of werewolves remained passive. It remained passive, that is, until the night he was bitten. Werewolves are real and the world has mobilized, brutally, to crush both the contagion that creates them and the individuals who have become infected. After Russell Shepard narrowly survives a werewolf attack, he is haunted by dreams of a place and time he has never been, and hunted by those who would end his life immediately, without remorse. He is propelled along a path that will bring him face to face with the forces determined to contain and destroy the threat he himself now represents. This is a darker, more dangerous Joshua Dagon - more engaging and thought-provoking than ever, boldly dissecting and detailing the timeless dangers that confront humanity in every age, in every society.
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JD Does It Again April 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have said it before and I hope I will have the chance to say it again and again, Joshua Dagon is a terrific writer. I love his two published books, The Fallen and Demon Tears, but he has outdone himself with his soon-to-be-released, Into the Mouth of the Wolf. Dagon has a knack for pulling readers in and keeping them there from cover to cover --and then making them want more. His command of the English language is masterful, his prose beautiful, and his characters created in a way that makes you feel they are your friends. His subtle humor is great.
His stories are fresh and witty and he has a knack for presenting a tale in a way that makes you sit up and take notice.
Into the Mouth of the Wolf is a different kind of story than his first two books. The allegory is still strong, in fact, I would say even stronger than his previous work and Dagon steps into a new genre with this book. Leaving party boys behind, we enter the world where werewolves are real, and Joshua Dagon takes a big leap into a darker form of literature as he looks at society at large and the dangers within.
Again, departing from his previous books, Wolf is written completely in the first person, solely from the perspective of our hero, Russell Shepard, who was quite young when the world first learned that werewolves truly existed. As he grew, the threat of these creatures became a global concern. Governments created special forces to kill or capture the creatures and built secure research labs to study the phenomenon, even though those that have been contaminated by the werewolves were in the minority.
Reacting in ways both useful and ridiculous, the global community responded to the treat of the contagion. (Recognize the allegory?). People were told that chances of becoming involved in the pandemic were slim as long as they followed certain seemingly logical rules. So Russell felt safe enough, that is, until he himself was bitten by a werewolf.
He tells of the events and insights that follow from this singular moment, including dreams that seem to be remembrances from centuries before, of a prior time when werewolves affected the world. Eventually, his experiences give him reason to have even greater concern, as he learns about how the government and world are truly reacting to those like him.
Readers will have no trouble with identifying with JD's theme. Many have felt that the gay community has represented a threat to "good Christian living" and that the world would be that much better off were we not around. We know that this is not true and if we look at our fight for survival and acceptance, we can only be very proud of how far we have come and in the face of tremendous odds. Dagon's allegorical theme works on so many levels and is presented in such a way that this book is bound to be one of the most popular this year. The werewolf motif has fascinated mankind for a long time and Joshua Dagon gives us a whole new look at the way we respond to the fear and the unknown.
It is not possible to distinguish man from beast until one is familiar to both, Dagon writes on an opening page of the book, and this has always been a main thought of mine. We fear that which we do not know, but when we take the time to learn about something, fear evaporates and previously held misconceptions disappear. Whether it be werewolves or a group of people in society, knowledge and understanding brings about survival and acceptance. Joshua Dagon shows us this beautifully and with great skill.
"Werewolves may still roam the Earth" May 26, 2008
It's a Joshua Dagon far more dark, this time, and a writer equally witty butmore sharp and concise than in "The Fallen/Demon Tears" novels. The theme is most disquieting, what if a new mutated species should arise? The werewolf theme is certainly not new, but it serves the Author to introduce some relevant issues, bigotry, the role of the media in creating irrational panic, and the degree of primal, violent instincts inherent in human nature, and the moral problems involved. "We're not people anymore", says one "were" whilst in human form to another, and, indeed, bigotry is making a monster of the object of hatred. You feel horrified, intrigued and fascinated by Russell's predicament, and you can't help compare the rise of the mutant "Weres" to the rise of another emerging of a mutant species, the "Wraeththu" by Storm Constantine, still with a much more different outcome, Compare also with "Darker than you think" by Jack Williamson.
A book to read and ponder, but not alone at night!
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