Chapter 14
Sheriff Jake Sullivan stared at the corpse of a man found two miles north of the Salmon River. Something had chewed his face to a pulp as well as his stomach. Jake’s own stomach nearly flipped over at the sight.
But even worse, even more horrifying, the bite marks on the corpse appeared eerily human.
Jake had hoped that the meeting he’d held with the few ranchers who lived in and around the River of No Return Wilderness would be enough to sooth their nerves. He had expected wolves, or mountain lions, or even a grizzly or two had caused the strange livestock deaths. But whatever was killing animals out here had just moved to humans, and the situation had become a lot more serious.
A pair of hikers had found the body. They saw buzzards circling and thought the birds might be h
