Climbing Thriller

Three friends from small-town Pennsylvania set out to conquer Denali, North America's highest peak, but only two come down alive. On the mountain, their grand adventure unravels into a harrowing tale of survival, betrayal, and the haunting consequences of ambition pushed too far. For fans of Into Thin Air, Touching the Void, and 127 Hours, Denali has a full cast, jaw-dropping twists, and immersive sound design that will transport you to one of the most extreme environments on earth.

How far would you go to save someone you resent? Sullen teenager Sam is trapped on a forced march up a mountain with Cal, the father he barely knows—a man more comfortable with past ghosts than with his own son. An argument on the trail leaves their raw emotional wounds exposed, with cruel words that can never be taken back. But when a sudden, brutal blizzard engulfs the peak and a catastrophic fall leaves Cal broken and helpless, their simmering conflict becomes a desperate fight for life. In a terrifying reversal of roles, Sam must become the rescuer. Battling blinding snow, relentless ...

A Russian Drama best seller now in its second edition! In February, 1959 nine young hikers on a cross country ski trip mysteriously died under horrific circumstances. It is one of the great mysteries of our times. They would be found with missing eyes, even a missing tongue, crushed bones, and stripped of their clothes (later found radioactive) in minus 50 degree temperatures. Theories range from their being murdered by the CIA to space aliens, to even "Abominable Snowmen". This book explores this famous incident using a technique known as "Higher criticism" to explain their terrifying ...

A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy...

A New York Times' best thriller of the year! Read by an ensemble cast. From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a...

THE LAST SHERPA: BOOK 1 The Sagarmatha Files Unzip the pocket. Thirty seconds. Fingers won't bend. Pull the radio free. Fifteen seconds of battery. Say the words that will either save eight lives or end them. That's the speed of death at 26,000 feet. Brody is a rescue team leader with a surfer's calm and a mountaineer's instincts. When corporate orders him to extract two stranded VIPs from Everest's Death Zone during the worst storm in recorded history, he knows the math. He runs it anyway. Eight climbers go up. The team is the rope. The rope is everything. But ropes fray — and so do ...

THE ONES THAT WERE HERE BEFORE Marcus Reyes climbs alone. No partner, no permit, no plan anyone else can talk him out of. It's the only place his head goes quiet — until a storm and a bad fall force him into an unmapped crevice high in Colorado's San Luis Valley, and he finds what centuries of treasure hunters never could: two hundred bars of lost Spanish gold, and the bones of the men who died guarding it. He should have died in that cave. Instead, he climbs out to find he was never as alone up there as he thought. The ones who've watched this valley for three hundred years are waiting ...

Three survivors. One body in the snow. A story that won't stay buried. On the northeast face of Mount Huntington, SAR specialist Silas Kincaid finds what the wind was trying to erase: a blood trail, panic tracks, and three survivors in an ice cave who aren't saying what put them there. Getting them off the mountain is the easy part. The fourth member of their party is still out there — somewhere on the face, somewhere under the snow — and the three people who came down alive have three different versions of why. When the story breaks and the cameras arrive, Kincaid is the only one who ...

"Hope's portrayal is pure perfection. Nothing fazes Koenig, so each discovery and dangerous moment is narrated by Hope with the perfect blend of sarcasm and ennui. Hope manages to convey Koenig as unemotional and practical while taking listeners on a wild, terrifying ride. Listeners will feel...

Months after the zombie virus has been released, the east coast is in shambles. Packs of blood-thirsty zombies and bands of violent criminals are preying on anyone foolish enough to show their face. Chuck and Elizabeth have no choice as they continue their journey into the mountains of North Carolina, trying to locate Chuck’s daughter. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, a vicious Mexican cartel has used the societal collapse to move in and stake their claim in one of the city’s nicest neighborhoods. Dozens of women have been captured and are being used as sex slaves by the cruel gang members. To ...

A cutting-edge thriller about one man's quest to discover horror lurking at the top of the world. Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, 'Journey to the Dark Side', ex-adrenalin junkie and slacker Simon Newman hires someone to guide him through the notorious Cwm Pot caves, so...

As heard on Coast to Coast AM, Sasquatch Chronicles, Beyond Reality Radio, The Confessionals, Passion for the Paranormal, Where Did the Road Go?, Lost River Legends, and Late Night in the Midlands. This book is the second in a series, which contains sightings, encounters, and evidential findings that pertain to Bigfoot in North America. Some of these accounts may be quite terrifying, so listener discretion is advised.

In Manhattan, everyone owes someone. All Claire and Daniel Mercer wanted was to get their daughter into the right school. All it took was one small favor. Then another. Then another. When a fellow board member turns up dead, Claire realizes the co-op's favor system was never about getting them to do things. It was about getting them to confess — one reasonable compromise at a time — until the board owned them completely. Now they know too much. And someone is making sure that's not a problem for long. All the Right Favors — because in Manhattan, nothing is ever free.

NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered. “A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and ... adventure.” — Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that...

I totally suck at keeping New Year's resolutions, so this time I make one I can stick with: learn to rock climb. I'm coordinated and like to hike so it should be simple enough, right? Sure, only my instructor is hotter than any mountain man I've ever seen and making it hard to concentrate. My hands and feet are as distracted as my brain is, but thankfully Mason is more than happy to help. One touch and the chemistry is instant. The lessons can wait, I want him to use these ropes for something else entirely. Lucky for me, he wants the exact same thing. Forget about rock climbing, I'm ready ...

At 26,000 feet, the dead don't stay buried. Dr. Paul Whittaker has spent his life reducing human survival to cold, hard data. At sixty-three, the brilliant, rigidly clinical academic is attempting the ultimate test of his biometric models: a brutal ascent into the Death Zone of Mount Everest. With state-of-the-art sensors tracking his every heartbeat, Paul is determined to prove that the human machine can conquer any environment. But the mountain does not care about his data. When a sudden, localized anomaly bypasses his equipment and drops the temperature inside his tent to impossible ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson is on a peaceful country drive when out of nowhere another vehicle crashes into his Civic and sends him plummeting off the Carbon River bridge into the abyss below. Now Jobe’s son and daughter, Ky and Miranda, embark on a quest to find the craven committer of the crime. An abhorrent act that has left Jobe languishing in a coma, withering away, destined for death. Suspects include a gallery of rogues from Jobe’s former cases, recently released from prison and hellbent on wreaking revenge. Lying insensate in a care facility bed, the detective has never been ...

Mason Seaforth, a mild-mannered accountant, wakes up the morning of his 20th wedding anniversary to find that his wife Sami has disappeared. A search of Sami's computer uncovers a past she has buried for more than 20 years. Together with their strong-willed friend Marcie Kane, Mason leads an investigation that takes them from the home he and Sami share in Gulfport, Florida, to a casino in Gatineau, Quebec.

Chosen for Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club, this is the chilling new ghost story from the bestselling author of Dark Matter. The Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all. Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred...

Army Engineer vs. Infantry Officer Lieutenant Harper, surfing Army Engineer, must pass the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program (RASP). He's promised Michelle, his ex-girlfriend CIA Officer, to be one of the few selected for the coveted 75th Regimental scroll. She's recruited him to back her up by commanding a Military Intelligence platoon in Korea. But he has to be selected as a Ranger first. RASP won't be easy. Harper must lead a pair of enlisted Ranger candidates to victory. Captain Dobbs, an infantry officer also competing for selection, has Harper's number. Aggressive officers ...