The Way Out

In this taut, intensely dramatic narrative--the record of a perilous excursion into the wild--two men confront immutable forces of nature and the limits of their own sanity. Craig Childs is lost. In a labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest where virtually nothing else is alive--barely any vegetation, few signs of wildlife, scant traces of any human precursors in this landscape--Childs and his friend Dirk undertake a fortnight's journey. With as much food and gear as they can carry, and little else but their wiles to help them traverse the inhospitable, unmappable terrain, the two men assume the life-or-death challenge of exploring this land--and then finding a way out. Equally gripping as their adventure in the wild is the parallel story, told in flashback, of what propelled the two men into these extreme circumstances. In scenes that crackle with tension and suspense--recollections of barroom brawls, high-speed car chases, and reckless feats of risk taking--we discover the surprising legacy of violence that each man is escaping.

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Title of ebook: The Way Out
ISBN: 9780316028882
parent-ISBN: 9780316610667
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 11-2007
Released online for download: 11-01-2007
Author of eBook: Childs, Craig
Joint Author: Conkling, Winifred

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The Way Out

Chapter One

Now at Earth's lips,

Now at my lips.

- Dine Blessingway ceremony

DAY ONE

Winter, now. The desert races past.

Driving is a blessing of speed you don't get from walking. I lean into the seat with my boots against the dashboard and watch this oceanic country of southern Utah surge and collapse around us. Canyons fall away, inhaled by red earth. Dirk Vaughan's hand drapes the steering wheel, his fifteen-year-old Bronco moaning to the road. He drives like an old street cop, body hanging relaxed on its skeleton as if loosely prepared for impact, his eyes scanning easily, seeing everything. We pass a semi painted in the highway grime of snowmelt, nipples of soiled icicles hanging from its frame. Dirk's posture does not change as we speed around it, the signal flicked on, wheel nudged, accelerator touched, signal flicked the other way. He has been in sixteen car accidents in the forty-five years of his life: a reckless teenage rollover, numerous impacts maneuvered in close quarters with a patrol car, and high-speed collisions that left cars welded together. I ... read full excerpt from: The Way Out ebook

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