Veteran reporter Garrett Hartmann considers journalism a calling and despises the fact that he has become part of a media industry manic on infotainment, commercialism, spin, and hype. He's also gone through a bitter divorce and lost his dearest friend and mentor.

Something is missing, but Garrett isn't quite sure what-or how to find it. In many ways, his plight is typical of modern man: living in a 'mediated" world and feeling detached from the environment, other living things, loved ones-and even himself. Garrett craves something real.

After hearing about the Tasmanian tiger, the...