Zusatztext The Smoke Jumper is a tale of loyalty and guilt! honour and selfless love! and the human cost of choices made. Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Evans studied law at Oxford University after a year in Africa, teaching English with Voluntary Service Overseas. He then worked as a journalist, film producer and screenwriter, before writing five bestselling novels. The Horse Whisperer , his first book, was made into a movie directed by Robert Redford. He lives in the southwest of England with his wife, singer-songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming. Klappentext The fire that was to change so many lives started with a single shaft of lightning that struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night. Connor Ford, the Smoke Jumper, braves the the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have. In the wake of the fire, Connor travels to the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but not happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, when he must walk through fire again ... In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honour, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Horse Whisperer creates another magnificent epic ... Zusammenfassung In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honour, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Horse Whisperer creates another magnificent epic ...

The Smoke Jumper is a tale of loyalty and guilt, honour and selfless love, and the human cost of choices made.

Vorwort
In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honour, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Horse Whisperer creates another magnificent epic ...

Autorentext
Nicholas Evans studied law at Oxford University after a year in Africa, teaching English with Voluntary Service Overseas. He then worked as a journalist, film producer and screenwriter, before writing five bestselling novels. The Horse Whisperer, his first book, was made into a movie directed by Robert Redford. He lives in the southwest of England with his wife, singer-songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming.

Klappentext

The fire that was to change so many lives started with a single shaft of lightning that struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night. Connor Ford, the Smoke Jumper, braves the the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have.

In the wake of the fire, Connor travels to the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but not happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, when he must walk through fire again ...