How to Survive a Grizzly Attack in a Forest Fire: A Practical Guide for City-Dwellers
This Is Not A Reading Series, Harper Collins Canada and NOW Magazine present: Andrew Pyper launches his new novel, The Wildfire Season, with an “instructive and practical” audio-visual survival guide to the Yukon wilderness!
This Is Not a Reading Series invites you to the launch of The Wildfire Season, the new novel by Andrew Pyper, presented by Pages Books & Magazines and Harper Collins Canada. In writing The Wildfire Season Andrew Pyper spent many months living in, and touring, the Yukon wilderness. From bar fights to bear tracking, Pyper learned what it takes to make it in the beautiful but harsh Yukon. Now city-dwellers everywhere can benefit from Pyper’s “education.” Come to the launch of his new novel and find out for yourself what it takes to survive and thrive in the Yukon!
The Wildfire Season: Ross River, a.k.a. “lost river,” is a town on the edge, clinging to the outside world at the end of the Yukon’s loneliest road. It’s the perfect hiding place for Miles McEwan, the town’s hard-drinking, fist-fighting fire chief. No one gets close to Miles, except the blackened spectre of a young man only he can see, a haunting reminder of the forest fire that scarred Miles’s face and psyche, forcing him to abandon his plans for the future as well as the woman he loved. But the slow burn of Miles’s exile is about to explode into life—and death—over the course of a handful of days at the height of the wildfire season. A hunting party seeking one of the last giant grizzlies is about to encounter a savagery of a different sort. In the mountains, a flame ignited by human hands begins to smoulder. And amidst the primeval beauty of rock and forest, someone is contemplating murder. As the hunting expedition confronts a chilling new enemy, and the growing inferno races to the edge of town, Miles embarks on a desperate rescue not only for the life of his five-year-old daughter—a child, who, until this dangerous summer, has been a complete stranger—but also for his own salvation.
Andrew Pyper is the author of Lost Girls, his highly acclaimed first novel that was a bestseller in Canada, in the Top 10 on the TimesUK paperback list and in the Top 30 of The New York Times paperback bestseller list. The novel was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail and The New York Times and is currently being adapted for the screen. His second novel, The Trade Mission, was selected as a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by the Toronto Star and was published in Canada, the US and the UK to great acclaim. Pyper is also the author of Kiss Me, a collection of short stories. While researching and writing The Wildfire Season, he spent three of the past five summers living in the Yukon. His home is in Toronto.
