NATIONAL BESTSELLER EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE OBSERVER (LONDON) - KIRKUS REVIEWS Wynn and Jack have been best friends since college orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing.
Is this the same man they heard? And if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival..
One night, with the fire advancing, they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank; the next day, a man appears on the river, paddling alone.
But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey.
When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns.
Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing.
Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE OBSERVER (LONDON) - KIRKUS REVIEWS Wynn and Jack have been best friends since college orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing
