BRUCE LEE BOND hitchhiked around North America’s western coast at seventeen. He studied under an Oglala Lakota medicine man, only to flee with the man’s abused girlfriend, to places ranging from the Canadian Rockies, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest and now resides in Alaska where he has rescued a dozen sex slaves since the pipeline boom. His storied past reflects in the writing of this epic tale. He is the founder of the Alaska Writers Guild.