Zusatztext This story of a battle for survival will drag you off your sofa and plunge you down foaming white water rapids in a fragile canoe. It's a high adventure - the kind you seldom come across anymore - laced with a thriller twist for an extra kick ... The author's a whitewater kayaker and his descriptions of wild sailing and observations of the wilderness are lyrically poetic. Loved it! Informationen zum Autor PETER HELLER is the award-winning author of THE DOG STARS, a New York Times bestseller and a Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle and Atlantic Book of the Year, and THE RIVER, an Observer Thriller of the Year. Born and raised in New York, he has travelled the world as an expedition kayaker, writing about challenging descents in the Pamirs, the Tien Shan mountains, the Caucuses, Central America and Peru. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received an MFA in fiction and poetry, and won a Michener fellowship for his epic poem 'The Psalms of Malvine'. Klappentext I COULDN'T TURN THE PAGES FAST ENOUGH' Clare Mackintosh'BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND UNBEARABLY TENSE' Observer'UTTER JOY... GLORIOUS DRAMA AND LYRICAL FLAIR' Denise Mina! New York TimesTWO FRIENDSWynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college! brought together by their shared love of the great outdoors.THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME When they decide to take time off university! canoeing down the Maskwa River in northern Canada! they anticipate the ultimate wilderness adventure. No phones. No fellow travellers. No going back. A HELLISH RIDEBut as a raging wildfire starts to make its way towards them and they stumble across a woman who has been brutally attacked and left for dead! the desperate race for survival becomes a much deadlier game of cat and mouse. A gripping tale of man vs nature, and the destructive power of revenge from the author of New York Times bestseller The Dog Stars. Zusammenfassung A gripping tale of man vs nature, and the destructive power of revenge from the author of New York Times bestseller The Dog Stars....

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PETER HELLER is the award-winning author of THE DOG STARS, a New York Times bestseller and a Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle and Atlantic Book of the Year, and THE RIVER, an Observer Thriller of the Year.
Born and raised in New York, he has travelled the world as an expedition kayaker, writing about challenging descents in the Pamirs, the Tien Shan mountains, the Caucuses, Central America and Peru.
He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received an MFA in fiction and poetry, and won a Michener fellowship for his epic poem 'The Psalms of Malvine'.

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I COULDN'T TURN THE PAGES FAST ENOUGH' Clare Mackintosh
'BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND UNBEARABLY TENSE' Observer
'UTTER JOY... GLORIOUS DRAMA AND LYRICAL FLAIR' Denise Mina, New York Times

TWO FRIENDS
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college, brought together by their shared love of the great outdoors.

THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME
When they decide to take time off university, canoeing down the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate the ultimate wilderness adventure.
No phones. No fellow travellers. No going back.

A HELLISH RIDE
But as a raging wildfire starts to make its way towards them and they stumble across a woman who has been brutally attacked and left for dead, the desperate race for survival becomes a much deadlier game of cat and mouse.

Zusammenfassung
A gripping tale of man vs nature, and the destructive power of revenge from the author of New York Times bestseller The Dog Stars.