The River: A novel Audiobook (Free)

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

‘A fiery tour de pressure… I possibly could not put this publication down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful.’ –Alison Borden, The Denver Post

From the best-selling author of YOUR DOG Stars, the storyplot of two university students on the wilderness canoe trip–a gripping tale of the friendship tested by fireplace, white water, and violence

Wynn and Jack have been close friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is normally a gentle large, about The River: A book a Vermont kid never happier than when his foot are in the water. Jack port is more tough, raised on the ranch in Colorado where sleeping beneath the stars and cooking on a fireplace came as naturally to him as deep breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in north Canada, they anticipate lengthy days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and evenings of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency towards the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and opt to warn them about the open fire, their seek out the pair arises nothing no one. But: The very next day a man shows up for the river, paddling only. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? Out of this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding tale of desperate wilderness survival.