Nicholas Evans

Una nueva y maravillosa novela del autor de El hombre que susurraba al oído de los caballos, esta vez con el trasfondo de los lobos, una especie en peligro de extinción, y una cautivadora historia de

The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.

Tom es un escritor y productor cinematográfi co de 55 años, divorciado, exalcohólico y solitario. Su hijo, con el que hace años que apenas se habla, es un marine que acaba de ser acusado de una matanza de civiles en Irak y se enfrenta a un juicio que puede acabar con la pena máxima. Para ayudar a su hijo, Tom deberá enfrentarse con dolorosos hechos de su pasado y revivir la tragedia que marcó su infancia y su vida para intentar encontrar así una vía de escape para él y para su hijo. Una magistral novela sobre los efectos devastadores de los secretos de familia y que nos muestra cómo a menudo es a los que más queremos a quien más fácilmente herimos.

Un cotizado abogado neoyorquino y su esposa poseen una espléndida casa de campo donde su hija Grace, una adolescente feliz y apasionada por los caballos, dedica su tiempo libre a cabalgar con Pilgrim. Sin embargo, un aciago accidente trunca brutalmente ese idilico mundo.

Nicholas Evanss most powerful and ambitious novel yet

Thirteen-year-old Grace and her horse, Pilgrim, are involved in a horrific accident. Grace''s mother, Annie, believes that they can both be helped by Tom Booker, a (R)horse whispererA(c). They drive to meet him and there, in the beautiful mountains of Montana, their lives are changed for ever. The Horse Whisperer has been a number one best-seller throughout the world. Now it is also a major film starring Robert Redford and Kristin Scott Thomas.

The fire that was to change so many lives started with a single shaft of lightning that struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night. The woman who camped nearby with her group of troubled teenagers slept on and heard nothing. Until the deadly inferno engulfed the mountain, and into the flames leaped The Smoke Jumper. His name is Connor Ford and he braves he the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have, for Julia Bishop is the partner of his closest friend, Ed Tully. Julia loves them both but the tragedy on Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them and burns a brand on all their hearts. In the wake of the fire, Connor travels to the world''s worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but not happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, when he must walk through fire again ...