"This novel, set in the wilds of North America in the early 17th century...has an almost mythic purity...One
of Moore's accomplishments is his original redering of the Indians."
--The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin Putnam Inc. Web Site, August, 2001
Summary
His name is Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit missionary come from Europe to the New World to bring the word of
God to the heathen. He is given minimal aid by the governor of the vast territory that is proudly named New France
but is in reality still ruled by the Huron, Iroquois, and Algonkin tribes who have roamed it since the dawn of
time and whom the French call savages. His mission is to reach and bring salvation to an isolated Huron tribe decimated
by disease in the far North before incoming winter closes off his path to them. His guides are a group of Savages
who mock his faith and their pledges even as they accept muskets as their payment.
