The river
Heller, Peter
Genre:
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation
bonded by their shared love of mountains
books
and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant
a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged
raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada
they anticipate long days of leisurely paddles and picking blueberries and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire
their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river
paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And
if he is
where is the woman?
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