The Smoke Jumper
Author(s): Nicholas Evans
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. Connor Ford, the Smoke Jumper, braves the the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have. 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 ...
General Information
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 0.39
- : 01 July 2006
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Nicholas Evans
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 496
More About The Product
In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honour, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Horse Whisperer creates another magnificent epic ...
'Evans is not only a cracking storyteller, he has the rare ability to tell his tale with great vividness and simplicity, and descriptions of such neck-grabbing power that you feel you are sitting through a Hollywood blockbuster ... the reader is swept along by the sheer vigour of the narrative' Daily Mail ** 'A rich, imaginative, tragic and heroic tale, told unashamedly straight from the heart' Sunday Express ** 'His storytelling powers are some of the most compelling in print' Glamour
Nicholas Evans was a screenwriter and film producer before writing his first novel, The Horse Whisperer. He lives in Devon.
