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    Summit: A Novel

    By Harry Farthing

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    “Magnificent! A compelling, fast-paced novel that reveals a rarely seen dark side of Everest. A must-read!”—James W. Huston, New York Times bestselling author of The Blood Flag

    The view from 8,848 meters isn’t always clear.

    Even after eight successful summits, Mount Everest guide Neil Quinn can’t handle anything the mountain throws his way. Disaster strikes steps from the top, leaving him with a very old swastika-embellished ice axe that should never have been so high on the mountain—not if Everest’s meticulously documented history is accurate.

    Danger doesn’t stop at the descent.

    When he heads back to Europe, blackballed and alone, he struggles to discover the truth about this lost relic. Quinn’s investigations soon have neo-Nazis, assassins, and history buffs vying to take possession of the axe—proof of Nazi alpine superiority, and strong evidence that a German climber was the first to summit Mount Everest.

    Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Summit follows two climbers across two continents as their stories intertwine across history, culminating in one final push for the top of the world.

    “Gripping…Farthing vividly depicts the challenges of mountain climbing.”—Publishers Weekly

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlackstone Publishing
    Release dateJun 14, 2016
    ISBN9781504710206
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    Summit: A Novel
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    Harry Farthing

    Harry Farthing’s debut novel, Summit, which married his interests in world travel, mountaineering, and modern history was published in print and audio formats by Blackstone Publishing in 2016. The success of his reading of Summit has seen this adventure novelist now embark on a parallel career in audiobook narration.

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    • 4/5
      An excellent piece of good old fashioned, intelligent, thought provoking storytelling surrounding the mystical Mount Everest. The author expertly blends two timelines; 1939 and Josef Becker has been blackmailed by the growing power of the Nazi party who want him to be the first person to scale Mount Everest and by doing so bring power and prestige to a fanatical national socialist party; 2009 Neil Quinn, hired by the ruthless Jean Philippe Sarron, is tasked with the mission of guiding Nelson Tate Junior to the summit. Both events create a masterful and visual reading experience, the two stories run seamlessly side by side but with a connection running throughout and beautifully blended and concluded in the final chapters. The only slight criticism I have is in the length of the novel and, I felt it might have benefited from a slightly shorter page count.
    • 4/5
      It was an interesting read. Everest has always fascinated me. I was impressed by the details of the mountaineers climb.