Through the sweltering, equatorial days, Captain Gringo marches across the highlands with his guard up and his Maxim handy. There's no territory he can call home, although there's a room reserved for him in every jail across the map and women who would gladly put him up as well.He's leading a brigad
Death in High Places
✍ Scribed by Bannister, Jo
- Book ID
- 107346025
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Two friends embark on a climb of treacherous Anarchy Ridge but only one will make it down alive. Unjustly blamed for his friend’s haunting death, the other must run for his life as a mourning father seeks revenge, in Jo Bannister's thrilling mystery novel Death in High Places Two friends stand at the foot of the glacier, looking up to Anarchy Ridge. They can't see the summit of the mountain, only its heaving shoulders. But they can see the thin blade of the ridge, and the snow whipping off it by the rising wind making arabesques against the impossibly blue sky. They stand still for a long time, their kit at their feet, just looking, but the mountain awaits. They begin their climb up the ridge, but only one of the friends will make it down alive. Afraid for his own life when his friend's vengeful father blames him for the deadly climbing accident, and with the horrific memory of that moment of peril playing in his mind, the...
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