Binding: Paperback
Description: An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's Road of Bones a tightly wound atmospheric and creepy as hell (Stephen King) supernatural thriller. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow - covered wilderness with a dim dusky sky forever overhead Siberia's Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces limited visibility and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero fatal car accidents are common. But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Known as the Road of Bones it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union's gulag prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road. Fascinated by the history documentary producer Felix Teig Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust the coldest place on Earth collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Only when Teig and his team reach their destination they find an abandoned town save one catatonic nine - year - old girl and a pack of predatory wolves faster and smarter than any wild animals should be. Pursued by the otherworldly beasts Teig's companions confront even more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them. It is a harrowing journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to confront the sins of his past.
Title: Road Of Bones A Novel
Author(s): Golden Christopher
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250875181
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/27/2022
Category: Thriller / Suspense