In the wake of a fiery tragedy on Snake Mountain in Montana, Connor embarks on a harrowing journey traveling 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 on another continent, he must walk through fire once more.

This is the best book I've read in a long time. I'm mailing it today to South Carolina as part of a trade. Enjoy it, "twiggy".

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Sometimes when you pick up a book you have an idea of where the story is going. I at least had an idea of where this one was going, but had no idea the struggles that would occur in the story to get there, nor did I have the story completely resolved.

I was first introduced to Nicholas Evans in a book store on a summer vacation. We were in one of those books a million and the cover kept grabbing at me. Till at last I resolved myself to purchase The Horse Whisper. What an astounding book and author. I've read The Loop also. I purchased The Smoke Jumper ages ago and just never got around to reading it. I wasn't disappointed either.

This story of love and courage for all parties involved is very deep. Life is always a struggle and sometimes we learn right away life's experience and sometimes we have to keep making the same mistakes over and over (always in different forms) until we "get it". The journey for Julia, Ed, and Connor is a long one. Life lessons are many. The story has enough "reality" spin on it that you can't help thinking it could be true.