Descent: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Johnston has a superhuman gift for watching and listening to the world and rendering, on the page, its beauty and savagery with such detail and power that the story feels almost more like memory than something read. I was so absorbed in the final incredible fifty pages that I missed my flight to La Guardia.”

  — Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Bonk

• “Tim Johnston has done a great job not just in creating his characters but creating the character of the Courtland family. If you enjoy vivid writing, intelligent plots, and gnawing your knuckles, you will love Descent.”

  — Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author

• “[A] twisty thriller about a family grappling with loss.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Tim Johnston’s high-wire literary thriller…will leave you gasping.”

  — Vanity Fair

• “Outstanding…The days when you had to choose between a great story and a great piece of writing? Gone.”

  — Esquire

• “The story unfolds brilliantly, always surprisingly…The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story; each somehow enhances the other…[An] astonishing novel.”

  — Washington Post

• “An original and psychologically deep thriller.”

  — Outside magazine

• “Johnston has a poet’s eye for the majestic and forbidding nature of the Rockies and a sociologist’s understanding of how people act under pressure. He also has a knack for creating characters that the reader will come to care about…Combining domestic drama with wilderness adventure, Johnston has created a hybrid novel that is as emotionally satisfying as it is viscerally exciting.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Xe Sands and R. C. Bray narrate alternating perspectives in this thriller. Sands adopts a smoky sound that parallels the fog surrounding the book’s major characters…Bray embodies Caitlin’s brother, Sean, and her father, Grant…The team effort of Sands and Bray makes for an atmospheric, suspenseful production.”

  — AudioFile

• “A riveting literary thriller of the can’t-stop-turning-the-page, stay-up-all-night variety.”

  — Alice LaPlante, author of A Circle of Wives