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Book SynopsisThe best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man escaping his own grief and an elite fishing lodge in Colorado hiding a plot of shocking menace.
Trade ReviewExtraordinary: a unique blend of thriller, post-Covid dystopia and paean to the healing properties of nature. * Guardian *
Exceptionally good... A frighteningly plausible nightmare. * OBSERVER, Thriller of the month *
Peter Heller's thrillers unfurl like campfire yarns.
* New York Times *
Moves inexorably from natural elegy to
a fast-paced and page-turning what-the-hell-is-going-on? Shades of nativist anti-cosmopolitanism, but first-rate. * The Critic *
An ever so subtly dystopian wilderness noir that speculates on the horrors of a post-pandemic society.
* USA Today *
Riveting... A chilling reminder of the dangers that might lie in wait for us all.
* Minneapolis Star Tribune *
A modern master of the wilderness thriller.
* Crime Reads *
The Guide is a glorious getaway in every sense, a wild wilderness trip as well as a suspenseful journey to solve a chilling mystery.
* BookPage *
Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller, and
The Guide offers further proof for the case. Powered by Heller's trademark prose, which alternately thunders and eddies like his beloved western rivers, this
sinister and soulful story unfurls so skillfully that it's easy to ignore all the layers beneath-but you shouldn't. Heller writes about the eternal questions and the exquisite details, and he knows the places where they intersect in the human heart and the natural world. * Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD *
PRAISE FOR PETER HELLER AND THE RIVER
'Glorious prose and razor-sharp tension' Observer Thrillers of the Year
'Utter joy... A suspenseful tale told with glorious drama and lyrical flair' Denise Mina, New York Times
'Urgent, visceral writing - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' Clare Mackintosh
'Lyrical and action-packed by turns' Guardian
'A must read' Daily Express
