Announcing The Abominable by Dan Simmons
On the 60th anniversary of the first conquest of Mount Everest, we are hugely excited to share the news of our forthcoming publication of The Abominable by Dan Simmons, a chilling and unforgettable thriller set on the snow-whipped slopes of 1920s Everest.
Sixty years ago on May 29th 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay famously became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest at 11:30 local time, after a gruelling climb up the southern face. They looked for signs of George Mallory and Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine who had disappeared on a failed attempt nearly thirty years previously in 1924. But they found nothing.
The Abominable takes the reader back to June 1924, to the brutal North East Ridge where Mallory and Irvine vanished into the fierce night. Our protagonist, daredevil explorer Richard Deacon, devises a plan to follow in the two men’s footsteps, accompanied by two friends. But as the wind rages and temperature and oxygen levels plummet, Deacon and his friends start to hear strange noises: something is tracking them. As their paranoia deepens, they are sent scrabbling blindly into Everest’s terrifying heights.
Soon they will discover what happened to Mallory’s crew – but can they escape the same hideous fate?
A gripping thriller, The Abominable masterfully blends historical fact with spine-tingling drama.
Published by Sphere in Hardback and Ebook 10th October 2013. And in paperback January 2014.
Hunted , haunted – on Everest there is nowhere to run and NOWHERE TO HIDE.
Read more about Hillary and Tenzing’s conquest of Everest here.
