Outdoor Thriller

On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to look for the next portage - and did not return. More than four hours later, Dan awakened from a fall with a lump on his head and stumbled deeper into the woods, confused. Three years later, Jason Rasmussen, a third-year medical student who loved the forest's solitude, walked alone into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on a crisp fall day.

WELCOME TO THE DEADLY WATERS Where the wild is unforgiving… and the truth can get you killed. From award-winning author Michael Lister comes the Deadly Waters Thrillers—a gripping series set in the rivers, swamps, backroads, and barrier islands of North Florida, where beauty hides brutality and survival is never guaranteed. In these waters, everything hunts The rivers run black. The storms roll in fast. The woods close in tight. And out here, far from help, the most dangerous predator isn’t the wild. It’s human. High-stakes suspense. Relentless pursuit. No way out. Across this ...

Discover Some of the Best Hunting and Fishing Spots in North America! Avid outdoorsman and successful entrepreneur Gary Oberg shares a lifetime of hunting and fishing adventures, and some misadventures, in a series of 40 entertaining true stories. His book “Sidetracks” reveals locations where the finest game and the feistiest fish live including: ▪ Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness▪ Lake Wenasaga, Ontario, Canada▪ Arctic Lodges, Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada▪ Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada▪Skyline Guest Ranch, Cooke City, Montana▪ Fishing Charters in Seward, ...

Game Warden Mike Bowditch investigates a series of brutal killings during a life-changing year in Storm Tide, the harrowing new thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron. "[Narrator Henry] Leyva...offers lots of strong characterizations to back up [Paul] Doiron’s words, including...

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2011, THIS IS A RE-ISSUE FROM THE AUTHOR The Last Mountain is a thriller that tells the story of how ambition and selfishness can lead to disaster. Mel lives for climbing. He's an outdoorsman through and through. He's also lazy, and selfish and lives off his long-suffering girlfriend, Fi. Fi wants to move on. She decides to give Mel a last send-off, a trek through the Himalayas, somewhere where he's always wanted to go. And there the pair of them get the chance of a lifetime. One that will test their morals and physical and mental abilities to their absolute limits - and ...

One crash. Two operations. One man who won't walk away. When a Gulfstream falls out of the sky onto the Kahiltna Glacier, SAR specialist Silas Kincaid moves in fast. But the survivors aren't climbers — and the cargo is the kind that gets people killed long after the wreckage cools. Thousands of miles away, a North Korean operative named Seon-Gun has crossed the DMZ carrying intelligence that certain people will do anything to suppress. Two operations converging on one mountain, one man caught between them, and a storm closing the only exit. Crevasse Deep — the Frozen Edge series continues.

Camp Rookwood is a place to hide. Jonah Rourke took the maintenance job to isolate himself from the world. He locks himself in a concrete cellar every full moon to keep his curse contained. A record heatwave draws something ancient out of the deep woods. Silas Creed is an apex lycanthrope who has hunted these mountains for decades. He severs the power lines and blocks the gravel roads. He traps forty two children inside the remote compound. Silas does not just want a meal. He wants Jonah to stop fighting his true nature and join the pack. He unleashes a ferocious assault on the camp to ...

Two women enter the wilderness. Only one of them knows the truth. And someone out there wants both of them dead. Best friends Kate Johnston and Veronica Hammond escape to Yosemite’s backcountry to forget the men who have derailed their lives—Kate’s controlling ex and Veronica’s ruthless soon-to-be-ex-husband, who built a tech empire with her and is now trying to cut her out. What’s supposed to be a healing weekend quickly curdles into unease: a pair of aggressive campers who won’t take no for an answer … a handsome stranger whose past feels unnervingly familiar … and the ...

Danny Pruitt should have turned back before the blizzard trapped him on Stillwater Mountain. A massive beast tracks him through the snow, moving faster than a man and hunting with lethal precision. Jack Pinter and his teenage son, Patrick, are stranded in Cabin Four as the storm cuts off all communication. The temperature drops by the hour, and the howling starts outside in the dark. They barricade the doors and prepare to fight. But the pack outside is smart, using abandoned mining tunnels to coordinate their attacks from below. With the generator dying and their barricades splintering, ...

The trail never ends. But your luck just might. The spanning wilderness offers isolation, beauty, and the ultimate test of human endurance. But when the sun drops behind the Blue Ridge Mountains and the fog rolls into the deep hollows, the woods belong to something else. In this massive new omnibus collection of 30 terrifying short tales, the ultimate hiking adventure becomes a fight for survival against the ancient, the unexplained, and the unforgiving. From the claustrophobic darkness of abandoned antebellum tunnels to the freezing, wind-whipped suspension bridges, these narratives ...

This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive.

Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them. These are the stories that defy...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

A riveting account of the infamous unsolved murder of two remarkable women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case. This story reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics, the failures of our justice system, and offers an...

Massacre Pond is Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel featuring Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murder On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the...

When a guest turns up dead at the newly opened Pinnacles Grand Hotel, ISB agent Felicity Harland finds herself summoned to a peculiar scene. A gentle breeze blows in from the balcony window, belying the violence of a man stabbed to death in his hotel room. It’s clear to Harland that this murder was personal, especially when the victim’s wife admits that she wanted him dead. But Harland isn’t so sure that this was a domestic dispute gone bad.

"Narrator Henry Leyva keeps listeners on the edge of their seats with his delivery of a story with more murder suspects than Maine has pine trees...This is an excellent, chilling story and performance." — AudioFile Magazine on The Precipice "[Henry Leyva's] understated performance makes even...

Nature has no mercy. The wilderness has no rules. And you are not as safe as you think. What begins as a weekend getaway quickly devolves into a desperate fight for survival. From the shadows of the deep woods to the sun-scorched desert, the line between a perfect vacation and a nightmare is thinner than you imagine. In these twenty pulse-pounding stories, ordinary people find themselves targeted by the apex predators of the North American wild. Whether it is a campground overrun by swarms, a trail stalked by an unseen hunter, or a tent in the dark that becomes a cage, these characters ...

Gary Player is one of golf’s greatest champions. As one of the "Big Three" of golf’s golden era (with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer), he helped launch golf as a major international sport. He sits fourth on the list of most major victories on the PGA Tour and built a reputation of being fearless on the course and steely on the greens. Don’t Choke is his look at what it takes to achieve success when the pressure is on. Player explains how and why he became a champion and what it takes to win in big-time golf, but he also explains how learning to cope in pressure situations can help anyone.

Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive---his own father. Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking...