Red - Zanies Holiday Cat Stockings

Seventeen-year-old Danny Pickett, living with his father in the woods on the Haggin Estate, is a born dog-handler. When he first sees Haggin's Irish setter, it's love at first sight for both of them. Haggin sees Danny's talents and lets him keep Red to train him as a hunter. Together the devoted dog and young man face many dangers in the wilderness they call home, but it is the savage killer, a bear called Old Majesty, who becomes the greatest test of their courage.

David ran a hand through his ginger hair and knocked it from its slick alignment. He rose from my sofa and whisked imaginary dust from his spotless gray trousers and paced again before the long wall of windows. I shook my head, as much from the surprise of him turning up at my door on a Monday morning—or, indeed, any time—as from what I’d heard.