The Mountain Story
Lori Lansens
Simon & Schuster, Jun 30 2015, $26.00
ISBN: 9781476786506
On his eighteenth birthday while residing with his aunt in her
trailer, an extremely depressed “Wolf” Truly ponders about life’s unending
cruelty. He thinks about his late mom
who died violently when he was a child back in Michigan and his wastrel father
who was never there for him. Already
contemplating suicide, the severe injury suffered by his BFF Byrd has pushed
Wolf over the edge. Wolf takes the tram
to Angel’s Peak where he plans to leap to his death.
On the tram with Wolf are the three Devine females: matriarch
Nola, her daughter Bridget and her granddaughter Vonn. They plan to spread the ashes of Nola’s
recently deceased husband on the summit.
However, they get lost on a cold November night and adding to their
fears Nola breaks her leg. No longer contemplating
ending it, Wolf and his stranded compatriots struggle to survive a wilderness
filled with life threatening peril from the weather, the wild and Nola’s
injury.
With a strong cast whose desperation and trepidations grow
throughout, this is an exciting thriller that grips readers with a sense of
urgency compounded by horrific choices needed to be made from the moment the
leads get lost on the mountain. Although
the flashback technique detracts at times from the mounting suspense, Lori Lansens writes a dramatic terse winner.
Harriet Klausner
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