The Serpent's Bite

Warren Adler, author of War of the Roses, caps an extraordinary career with this story of fame, obsession, sexual depravity, and family dysfunction.

George Temple's attempt to reunite with his two adult children by arranging a repeat of their nostalgic family horse trek in the Yellowstone wilderness becomes a nightmare of unintended consequences as the sinister nature of his children's motives are revealed. Faced with perils of an unforgiving wilderness, an alcoholic outfitter, a venal wrangler, a failed son and a daughter with an enormous appetite for feeding selfish and violent pursuits, the journey disintegrates into a nightmare of malevolence and reaches into the very essence of family dysfunction.