Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

Yes, I liked Into the Wild enough to plow right into the rest of Krakauer's repertoire. Into Thin Air was written earlier than the Into the Wild. While both works are post mortem examinations of adventures gone wrong, this one hits much closer to home for the author. Krakauer was a participant on an ill fated 1996 expedition to summit Mt. Everest which lost 8 people to the mountain.

Krakauer describes the events in detailed, gripping prose. I did not want to put this book down.

On the bedside table:

• Alan Furst's The Foreign Correspondant
• Laurell K. Hamilton's Danse Macabre
  
• Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
• Up in Honey's Room - Elmore Leonard