His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his closest friend, an ambitious young musician called Ed Tully. Julia loves them both but the tragedy on Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them and burns a brand on all their hearts. With his blond, blue-eyed looks and laconic cowboy charm, Connor is the only child of a Montana rancher and a rodeo queen. Until that fateful day, he has been happy to spend his winters nurturing a career as a photographer and his summer vacations with Ed, 'smoke jumping' - being dropped by parachute to fight remote forest fires. Now, unable to be with the woman he loves, he embarks on a journey to the dark heart of human suffering, traveling to the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but never happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, again and again he dares death to take him, until another fateful day in another continent, when he must walk through fire once more for Julia, her child, and all that he holds dear. Nicholas Evans returns with an enthralling novel of love and loyalty, of guilt and honor. Sweeping from the towering wilds of the American West to the killing fields of Africa, The Smoke Jumper is the story of three people's quest for happiness and self-fulfillment, played out against the heroism of firefighting in the wilderness and photojournalism at the edge of human experience - a mesmerizing adventure for the spirit, told in the grandest tradition.
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Nicholas Evans was a screenwriter and film producer before writing his first novel, the phenomenal number one bestseller The Horse Whisperer, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide since its publication in 1995. It is now also a Hollywood film, starring and directed by Robert Redford. His second novel is The Loop, and his latest novel is The Smoke Jumper. Nicholas Evans lives in London.
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I read this book after "The Horse Whisperer" which I truly enjoyed. Although I emjoyed the "Smoke Jumper" there were times it slowed down a little too much and it took awhile to get up and going again. It is a story of romance, friendship and heros. There is a hidden romance between two people but they are unable to show any emotion toward each other because she is married to his best friend. It is a good book but I didn't feel it was as gripping as some of my other favorites.
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THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE ALWAYS happened by accident. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chief logger, smoke jumping, twenty alternatives, jump spot, smoke jumper Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sister Emily, New York, John Standing Bird, Chuck Hamer, Big Jim, Mary of the Angels, Peter Pringle, Hank Thomas, Crazy Horse, Emmanuel Kabugi, Harry Turney, Kay Neumark, The Blessed One, Donna Kiamoto, Snake Mountain, Lawrence Nyeko, Mann Gulch, North Higgins, Bear With No Teeth, Flame Spirit, Frank Sinatra, Glen Nielsen, Iron Mountain, Jim Tully, Kevin Lucas New!
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THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE ALWAYS happened by accident. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chief logger, smoke jumping, twenty alternatives, jump spot, smoke jumper Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sister Emily, New York, John Standing Bird, Chuck Hamer, Big Jim, Mary of the Angels, Peter Pringle, Hank Thomas, Crazy Horse, Emmanuel Kabugi, Harry Turney, Kay Neumark, The Blessed One, Donna Kiamoto, Snake Mountain, Lawrence Nyeko, Mann Gulch, North Higgins, Bear With No Teeth, Flame Spirit, Frank Sinatra, Glen Nielsen, Iron Mountain, Jim Tully, Kevin Lucas New!
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- The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans on 4 pages
- The Butter Battle Book (Classic Seuss) by Dr. Seuss on page 361
- West Side Story on page 50
- The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw by Sheila Hancock on page 297, and Back Matter
- Careers for Your Characters: A Writer's Guide to 101 Professions from Architect to Zookeeper by Raymond Obstfeld on page 140, and page 142
- Beyond the Ordinary: Ten Strengths of U.S. Congregations by Cynthia Woolever in Back Matter
- From There to Here: A Breast Cancer Journey by Diane Davies in Front Matter
- A Comparative Grammar Of British English Dialects: Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses (Topics in English Linguistics : 50.1) by et al Bernd Kortmann (Editor) on page 259
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