In search of his birth mother, an American finds himself in an iso-lated Aegean village where he is suddenly and violently enmeshed in a web of lies and deceptions he can neither understand nor control. Riots, kidnapping, and murder link the fates of Americans and Turks in a storm of menacing religious extremism. In Forty Wolves, Mark Jacobs (Stone Cowboy, Handful of Kings) triumphs again as a master story-teller of intrigue and international politics.