
Product Details
- Publisher: Viking (2022-05-03)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 352 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780735242852
- Item Weight: 396.9 grams
- Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.5 x 1.04 cm
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A vertigo-inducing page-turner by an author who brings the high-stakes world of expert mountain-climbing to life on the page.” —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid
A young woman's once-in-lifetime adventure in the world of extreme-altitude mountaineering takes a chilling turn when a series of deaths can no longer be written off as accidents.
When journalist and novice climber Cecily Wong is asked to summit Mount Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, it's a career-making opportunity. She's been personally invited by Charles McVeigh, one of the most acclaimed mountaineers in the world, who wants her to report on the final leg of his record-breaking series of summits. But there's one caveat: he won't give her the interview until she's scaled the mountain as part of his climbing party.
Cecily is by far the least experienced of the group, but she is intent on proving herself and will stop at nothing to reach the summit. But when strange things start to happen around her, she becomes concerned. And then people start to die.
Stranded on the mountain with a team she barely knows, she must battle more than the elements in an epic fight for survival—against one of the world's most dangerous mountains and against an unknown assailant who is picking climbers off one by one.
About the Author
AMY McCULLOCH is an internationally bestselling Chinese-White author, raised in Ottawa, now based in London, UK. She has written eight novels for children and young adults, and her work has been translated into fifteen languages. Breathless is her adult fiction debut. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was editorial director for Penguin Random House Children’s Books. In 2013, she was named one of The Bookseller's Rising Stars of publishing. In addition to writing, she loves to seek out adventure, especially by hiking in remote corners of the globe. Amy knows the dangerous world of high-altitude mountaineering very well: in September 2019, she became the youngest Canadian woman to climb Mount Manaslu in Nepal—the world’s eighth-highest mountain at 8,163 meters.