Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

*****From the author of The Three, coming soon to your screen as a major BBC adaptation by Golden Globe winner Peter Straughan*****

Adrenaline-junky Simon Newman sneaks onto private land to explore a dangerous cave in Wales with a strange man he’s met online. But Simon gets more than he bargained for when the expedition goes horribly wrong. Simon emerges, the only survivor, after a rainstorm trap the two in the cave. Simon thinks he’s had a lucky escape.

But his video of his near-death experience has just gone viral.

Suddenly Simon finds himself more famous than he could ever have imagined. Now he’s faced with an impossible task: he’s got to defy death once again, and film the entire thing. The whole world will be watching. There’s only on place on earth for him to pit himself against the elements: Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

But Everest is also one of the deadliest spots on the planet. Two hundred and eighty people have died trying to reach its peak.

And Simon’s luck is about to run out.

About the author

Sarah Lotz

Sarah Lotz is a novelist and screenwriter with a fondness for the macabre. She is the author of The Three, and lives in Cape Town with her family and other animals.

Our Review

I didn’t know what to expect when I opened this book, as the cover gave nothing away. There was snow, but nothing prepared me for Simon Newman’s journey. 

He is not one for doing things by halves, so he pits himself against two of the most lethal adversaries. Some might say he had a death wish.

I cannot think of another reason he would push himself to such lengths. Or us, for that matter. He showed an unfortunate lack of common sense.

Having just trudged up Everest with this man, feeling the strain and the cold, I feel as though I have tried to conquer the world’s highest and most lethal mountain.

This was after he went potholing, hopelessly trapped in some tiny spaces. He was lucky to be rescued from that one, so what made him think he was ready for Everest?

He was unprepared and ill-equipped, and already traumatised; it was a mistake.

This story is hauntingly eerie, psychologically creepy and brilliantly written. The tension, once it grips you with its icy fingers, does not let you go…