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The River

Peter Heller

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#5032 of 8,085 books · #1673 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (2020).

Wynn and Jack meet on a hiking trip during their Dartmouth College orientation week and become instant best friends. They both love hunting, fishing and books and thus it feels only natural that they'd take off a term from their Ivy League college and spend it canoeing down the lakes and rivers on the border with Canada. But there is death in the air. A megafire is spreading quickly, the smell of smoke becoming more pungent by the day. The nights are getting colder and the river wilder with the approaching autumn. There are rapids to navigate, and miles of river to paddle through before making it to a safe harbour. And when a distraught man suddenly appears, asking for Wynn and Jack's help to find his missing wife, the race against time and the fight against nature's destructive power become entangled with a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN-13
9781474612074
Topics
Survival against natureFriendshipMan versus wilderness

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