THE GUIDE by Peter Heller - Review & Giveaway

 

Bestselling author, Peter Heller is out with another thrilling novel, THE GUIDE (Knopf). Readers will recognize Jack from Heller's previous novel, THE RIVER, and Covid19 continues to push those who can afford it out into the great outdoors.

What could be better than this?

It's Jack's go to phrase that helps soothe some of the awful loss which has filled his young life. He hopes to find time for reflection when he's hired as a fishing guide for rich people at The Kingfisher Lodge, known by locals as "Billionaires Mile." It's located in a remote area of Colorado and known for its pristine river and fly fishing. It boasts privacy and distance from the virus.

Jack quickly forms a close relationship with his client, Alison K. - a well known singer. But nefarious things start happening and it doesn't take long for Jack and Alison to realize something's not quite right at the ranch.   

THE GUIDE is as beautifully written as it's terrifying. I've never been fly fishing nor particularly interested in books where nature is one of the main characters, but I fell in love with THE GUIDE on page one and kept reading as the layers of the story grew and the plot twisted and turned. At the end, I was absolutely shocked by what was actually going on at the ranch. I challenge you not to read this all the way through in one sitting.

Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a former contributing editor at Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. He is an award winning adventure writer and the author of four books of literary nonfiction.  He lives in Denver. Heller was born and raised in New York. He attended high school in Vermont and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he became an outdoorsman and whitewater kayaker.

Heller’s debut novel, The Dog Stars, was published by Knopf in August, 2012. It was the Apple iBooks Novel of the Year, Hudson Booksellers top fiction pick of the Year, and an Atlantic Monthly and San Francisco Examiner Best Book of the Year. It was critically celebrated and a breakout bestseller, and has been published in eighteen languages.

His second novel, The Painter, (Knopf, 2014). Publishers Weekly, in its Starred review, called it “masterful”. It won the Colorado Book Award and the prestigious Reading the West Book Award, shared in the past by western writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Terry Tempest Williams. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Hudson Books’ top fiction pick of the year, and an Amazon Top Twenty.

Celine, a novel, came out from Knopf in March, 2017. Prepublication, it was an Entertainment Weekly top ten most anticipated book of 2017, and a Library Journal editor’s pick.

The River, was published with Knopf in March, 2019. It’s the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip–a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence.  The River is a National Bestseller, an Indie Next Pick, and has been included on many “Best Of” lists for 2019. The Guide followed in August, 2021 – it’s a heart-racing thriller which returns to Jack (from The River), who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.

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Thanks to Knopf we have a copy to giveaway. Just tell us about your relationship with nature. We'll choose a winner soon. Good luck.

GIVEAWAY: USA only please