It’s a fateful decision: They discover the woman, Maia, near death and badly injured, apparently by her homicidal husband, Pierre. They’re so in sync early on that they agree to lose travel time to turn back and warn a couple they’d overheard arguing that a forest fire is fast approaching. Jack is the sharp-elbowed scion of a Colorado ranch family, while Wynn is a more easygoing Vermonter-a divide that becomes more stark as the novel progresses-but they share a love of books and the outdoors. Two college friends’ leisurely river trek becomes an ordeal of fire and human malice.įor his fourth novel, Heller swaps the post-apocalyptic setting of his previous book, The Dog Stars (2012), for present-day realism-in this case a river in northern Canada where Dartmouth classmates Jack and Wynn have cleared a few weeks for fly-fishing and whitewater canoeing.
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