The Wildfire Season - Hardcover

Pyper, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312354541 ISBN 13: 9780312354541

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2006

Synopsis

Fire chief Miles McEwan, scarred and haunted by a terrible death, confronts the blackened spectre of the past as he races against time to protect the remote Yukon town of Ross River from a raging inferno set by an unknown arsonist and to rescue his innocent young daughter, in a psychological thriller by the author of Lost Girls. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

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

More reviews of The Trade Mission

‘...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

About the Author:

Andrew Pyper is the author of the novels Lost Girls (which was a New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year) and The Trade Mission: A Novel of Psychological Terror, as well as Kiss Me, a collection of stories.  He lives in Toronto, and his Web site is www.andrewpyper.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0312354541
• ISBN 13: 9780312354541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324