Two hard-charging former Army Rangers paired against their will, Briggs and a Belgian Malinois named Lulu, race down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier's funeral on time.
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.