- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (20 Mar 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743266161
- ISBN-13: 978-0743266161
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,685,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An adventure thriller that takes its characters on a haunting trip beyond the boundaries of human endurance and into enemy territory -- superb, thrilling, and terrifying."
-- Vince Flynn on "The Reckoning"
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When Hugh Glass sets off into the vertical wilderness of El Cap, he is at once revisiting his past and unwittingly becoming its prey. A widowed geologist, Hugh unites with his former climbing partner Lewis to reprise their first ascent on El Cap from thirty-five years ago. Back then their destiny seemed written on these walls. Here in Yosemite they met the women who became their wives and left them. Hugh's wife mysteriously disappeared into the desert. Lewis's wife is divorcing him. In the stone maze of El Cap, the two men hope to find a fresh start. But 'The Captain' seems cursed this time around. Even before the aging 'wall rats' leave the ground, disaster strikes three young women high on a neighbouring route. Hugh discovers one body in the forest and spies a second dangling a half mile overhead. He and Lewis doggedly climb on, only to be drawn into a deadly rescue attempt by Augustine, a search and rescue expert who is hellbent on saving his lover, one of the doomed women.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having read three of Jeff Long’s other books, The Descent, The Reckoning & Year Zero, I was looking forward to this one as the other three were well written books that I enjoyed.
The plot for “The Wall” is fairly simple. A mountain (The Wall) in Yellowstone National Park two old friends now in late middle age revisiting the site of there youthful conquest. Add into this mix five more climbers giving us seven in total of which eight go up, two take the short route down, another one comes half way down, two come down of there own accord of which one goes back and then……. Well you get the plot?
For me this is a book about the author’s passion for rock climbing, of which I now know more about than I did before I read this book. Some of his descriptive writing is breath taking and you genuinely feel as if you are on the Rock with our two latter-day Hillary’s at times, the story line also moves along well keeping you enthralled at times.
But, and this is a BIG but, I felt cheated as the story line meandered at times and I then got the impression that the author suddenly realised he was reaching his word limit and he then commits the cardinal sin and cheats the reader with what I call an Agatha Christie ending, you know the one where the culprit turns out to be a long lost relative from Brazil and only appears in the last paragraph of the book. The ending spoils an otherwise average book which seems to have been written to fulfil a book deal and is at best a poor “B” side to the other books of the same author.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have been a Jeff Long fan since I read The Descent... a fantastic novel. Year Zero was brilliant and The Reckoning was readable...
However, this offering of The Wall is a huge let down and a waste of time... The author is known as a keen climber and this book just seems like an opportunity to indulge his own interests...
Although the story is of some interest to the reader, it never really takes off and left me wondering when it was actually going to begin. Unfortunately, it never really does...
The man who wrote the Descent has REALLY let himself down... I won't be pre-ordering his next book...
However, this offering of The Wall is a huge let down and a waste of time... The author is known as a keen climber and this book just seems like an opportunity to indulge his own interests...
Although the story is of some interest to the reader, it never really takes off and left me wondering when it was actually going to begin. Unfortunately, it never really does...
The man who wrote the Descent has REALLY let himself down... I won't be pre-ordering his next book...
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Not as good as some of his others but still enjoyable and well worth a read. Think Mount Dragon compared to Still Life With Crows.
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