The Silent Land: A Suspense Thriller
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Award-winning novelist and cult favorite Graham Joyce transports readers to a mysterious world of isolation and fear with a hypnotically dark story about a young couple trapped by an avalanche in the remote French Pyrenees. . . a daring and powerful novel about love, loss, and rebirth.In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way out from under the snow&;only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. Their hotel is devoid of another living soul. Cell phones and land lines are cut off. An evacuation as sudden and thorough as this leaves Jake and Zoe to face a terrifying situation alone. They are trapped by the storm, completely isolated, with another catastrophic avalanche threatening to bury them alive . . . again. And as the couple begin to witness unset­tling events neither one can ignore, they are forced to con­front a frightening truth about the silent land they now inhabit. Award-winning author Graham Joyce has written a mysteri­ous masterpiece, a tour de force that will thrill fans of Peter Straub and the hit television show Lost.
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title_display | The Silent Land A Suspense Thriller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | The Silent Land A Suspense Thriller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The Silent Land | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | A Suspense Thriller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Fiction Suspense Thriller |