1823. Hunters of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a harsh life in the frontier. Hunting beaver, they every day confront the threat from Indian tribes who set out on the warpath after the white man invaded their lands, and other hostile forces of the prairie - the merciless terrain and its inhabitants. Hugh Glass is among the company's most valuable men, an experienced pioneer and a skilled tracker. But after coming face to face with a grizzly bear on one of his reconnaissance expeditions, he is seriously injured and is on the verge of death. The company captain assigns two people to stay behind to look after Glass until he dies and is buried. But when they instead abandon him, taking with them his only means of defense - his prized gun and cleaver - Glass becomes obsessed with a single desire: to survive in order to take revenge. With incredible courage and determination, Glass crawls three hundred kilometers of the wild American frontier, coping with predators, both two-legged and four-legged, with the threat of starvation and excruciating pain from terrible wounds. “The Returner” is an extraordinary tale of obsession, of limitless will, of how far a person can go in search of retribution.

“The Returner is one of the most astonishing, vivid and gripping survival stories I have ever seen. read." Akiva Goldsman, Oscar winner for his screenplay for A Beautiful Mind.

"Michael Pahnke's extraordinary debut novel, The Returned, is a stunning tale of incredible wandering and revenge, passionately depicting an American frontier that... comes to life on its pages” Howard Frank Mosher, author of the novel “The Outsider”

Translation - “Historical Novel” group, 2015.