The heart-stopping second novel from the author of Nightwatching, in which a father-son ski weekend becomes a desperate fight for survival
At twelve years old, Zach admires his father almost as much as he fears him. When Bram takes him on a father-son ski trip in the Colorado backcountry with a few select others, Zach feels brave, cautiously optimistic— his mother taught him the ways of the mountain, and the hushed whiteness should quiet Bram’ s complaints, his temper.
But Zach knows his father well enough to always be on high alert: to the shifting dynamics inside the cabin, to his father’ s every move, to what lies beyond the warmth of the fireplace. Because something is out there, on the mountain. Something that’ s killing animals and picking them clean.
And when the trip takes a turn for the worse, Zach fears he’ s in more danger than he realized. He’ ll have to rely on his own survival skills if he hopes to make it home alive— but will that be enough?
