A powerful thriller and love story from the best-selling author of Lost Girls
Of all the end-of-the-world places he could have run to after he was burned, Miles McEwan chose Ross River. Buried deep in the vast wilderness of the Yukon, it seemed the perfect place to escape the past. Best of all, he could carry on doing the job he loved – fighting fire.
But five years on, Miles is still troubled by phantoms of his previous life: the young man whose agonizing death preys on his conscience, and the woman he abandoned as a consequence. And in the dark forest around Ross River violence is brewing. A small party, out to track bear, is about to encounter nature in its wildest and most ferocious guise. Elsewhere a killer is going about his work, quietly and ruthlessly.
As the survivors of the hunting party are picked off one by one and fire rages through the mountains, Miles embarks on a desperate rescue mission, driven by love for a daughter who, until this dangerous summer, had been a perfect stranger.
The Wildfire Season is a remarkable tour de force – an edgy psychological thriller, a supernatural chiller, a terrifying tale of untamed nature, a poignant love story and a riveting follow-up to Andrew Pyper's bestselling Lost Girls.
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Reviews for The Wildfire Season:
“This novel’s on fire... Andrew Pyper knows how to whirl a complex plot into motion... but exceeds the demands of the suspense-thriller genre. Pyper is a literary craftsman who knows what he is doing at all times, a consumnate professional who, judging from The Wildfire Season, proposes to burn for a very long time.” Globe and Mail
Reviews for Lost Girls:
‘This is one scary book... You’ll want to keep all the lights on as you read this one’ Independent on Sunday
‘This is an excellently written novel, brilliant in its evocation of atmosphere’ Evening Standard
‘Extremely compelling’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Lost Girls is a hugely impressive and utterly compelling thriller’ Independent
‘A remarkably fine debut novel ... Lost Girls has a menace that is all its own’ Time Out
‘Lost Girls is remarkable and compelling. But, more than that, it is a novel that goes some way towards reinventing the literary ghost story’ The Times
‘Lost Girls is an excellent first novel; part thriller; part ghost story but always original in style and compulsive reading’ Manchester Evening News
Reviews for The Trade Mission
‘...a sombre portrait of men and women under the most intense psychological and physical pressure. It packs a mean punch – and some rude surprises... A wonderfully twisted updating of James Dickey's Deliverance, this one will grip you’ Guardian
‘Suspenseful’ – The Times
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‘...shows a writer of great confidence and originality...Pyper is not just preoccupied with questions of morality, he has the ability to explore them in a compellingly non-didactic way.’ The Herald
More reviews for Lost Girls
‘Think The Shining mixed with The Sixth Sense. A truly scary ghost story that will have you turning the pages late into the night’ Maxim
Andrew Pyper was born in Stratford, Ontario in 1968. He is the author of Kiss Me, a collection of short stories, as well as the novels Lost Girls (selected as a New York Times notable Book of the Year) and The Trade Mission. Lost Girls was an international bestseller, and is currently in development for a feature film adaptation. Andrew Pyper lives in Toronto.
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