Blood spilled in the Laurentian forests of Quebec has left a stain, and it's spreading. The mountain lion, red wine caribou, bald eagle, wolf and wolverine have already been wiped out, or nearly, and now hunters are turning their attention to the lucrative-and illegal- black bear market. Enter Nile Nightingale, a troubled man on the run who arrives in search of a rustic refuge. He thinks he's found it in the form of a run-down country church for sale. But his idyllic new world is turned upside down when he stumbles upon a ghastly find: a bleeding burlap sack, bound with a Christmas ribbon. Inside is the slashed and beaten body of fourteen-year-old Celeste Jonqueres...

     Inspired by true events, The Extinction Club is a powerful and moving portrayal of wildlife plunder and of those who dare to oppose it. It is also a darkly comic tale, in which the very urban Nile and the country0smart, near-genius Celeste teach each other about life and death, love and loss.

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Born in Montreal, Jeffrey Moore was educated at the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne (Paris) and the University of Ottawa. His award-winning novels, published in some 20 countries, include Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain (2000), which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Memory Artists (2004), which won the Canadian Authors Association Award. Both novels have been optioned for film. His most recent work, The Extinction Club, was nominated for the Hugh MacLennan Prize, the Arthur Ellis Award and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He lives in Val Morin in the Laurentians.

"The Extinction Club is a fantastic genre-ending tour de force, as sophisticated as it is brutal" - Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals

“Filled with dark humour and bright light, The Extinction Club is a moving and playful novel about the ultimate strength of human connections and the unquenchable will to persist in the face of hardship.” - Quill & Quire
"Harrowing... Entertaining as well as educating." - Times Literary Supplement
"Gripping and incisive. Moore integrates the novel's philosophical inquiries into violence and predation with an undeniably dynamic plot. His is not another plotless Canadian novel, nor is it merely one gun-filled chase through the woods after another. These gun chases are punctuated with compelling ideas..." - Globe & Mail
"The main character is funnier, wiser, more observant and better read than just about anybody he comes across ... His healing of Céleste will ultimately heal him, and repair whatever thwarted or unfulfilled paternal issues he may have left behind. He is, in a word, a sane man in a crazy world." - Toronto Star
"Hallucinogenic, mind-bending... Moore deftly transforms the Laurentians from idyllic cottage country to a macabre landscape filled with predatory humans ... Its eerie undercurrent calls to mind a David Lynch film." - Montreal Gazette
"Jeffrey Moore's darkly funny literary novel ... employs plot twists and graphic violence (though not gratuitous) that would easily qualify for a Coen brothers' screenplay. Most important, the novel displays a wizardry with language, especially wordplay, that has parallels in the works of Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov and David Mitchell." - Winnipeg Free Press
"The writing is fresh and original, and the two main characters are wonderfully drawn and alive. Hemingway said that he did not work with characters but with people, and so does Jeffrey Moore. His protagonists are real—even if imagined—people. The novel is multi-layered—a fast-paced entertainment, a regional nature exploration, a comedy with quick—witted dialogue, and an environmentalist call to arms." - QWF Jury, Hugh MacLennan Prize