Hunters found his body naked in the snow So begins this bold and breathtakingly ambitious new novel from Stephen Marche, the provocative Esquire columnist and regular contributor to The Atlantic whose last work of fiction was described by the New York Times Book Review as maybe the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchells Cloud Atlas. In The Hunger of the Wolf, Marche delivers a modern morality tale about the rapacity of global capitalism that manages to ask the most important questions we face about what it means to live in the new Gilded Age. The body in the snow belonged to Ben Wylie, the heir to Americas second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie familys housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died.
