This is the third book in the story of the Byrne family, Irish farmers whose lives were overturned in Greener Grass , then tested so severely in Wild Geese . In Timber Wolf , Kit's younger brother, is now the focus. Jack is determined to make his mark in the rough-and-ready lumbering industry up the Ottawa river from late 1840s Bytown. The young boy, not yet a teenager but full of braggadocio, is sure that he can quickly learn to be a hard-muscled...