Hardcover Mystery
ISBN 0-9661879-1-1, 356 pages
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"Gar generally did not count himself among those men who paid undue attention to women, but this one was pretty hard to ignore. For one thing, she was quite comely, with golden orange-brown skin and the squared-off form—broad hips, broad shoulders—of a classic beauty. For another, she hovered over the lax body of a decapitated man, a bloodied skinning blade in one hand and a flint bone-chopping adze in the other."

Thus begins an adventure into our most distant yesterdays.

Gar, a shaman of his clan of Real People, is rudely coerced into finding the person who took the fellow’s head. The spiritual health and very survival of his clan depend upon his skill—and luck—in uncovering the perpetrator.

Gar holds in his memory the collective lore of 50,000 years, from a time when Real People flourished unchallenged and ice had not covered their ancestral lands. Now they are a remnant, struggling to survive in a shrunken world that increasingly favors Hairies.

Today, we call them Neanderthals. To themselves, they were the Real People. And the Water People, the Hairies? Those were the other folk, the historically recent interlopers with a penchant for travel, strangers with beards and long hair, who didn’t mind getting wet.

The world of Pleistocene France may have been much different 37,000 years ago during the Würm glaciation, with its oddly different animals and uncertain climate, but Love and Death have been with us always. Based upon the latest information we’ve uncovered of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon ways, Hyænas is an exploration of that world.