

The Wall Street Journal called it “one of the ten books you’ll want to read this spring.” The River is a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. The best-selling author of The Dog Stars, he’s now come out with a new story about two college students on a wilderness canoe trip - a trip that was supposed to be a bucolic journey down the Maskwa, one of Canada’s most beautiful and remote rivers but that ends up being threatened by dangers both natural and man-made.

Novelist Peter Heller is a master of lyrical descriptions of nature combined with heart-thumping thrillers.

Rate us on iTunes or whatever podcast app you use! Like us on Facebook at Writers Voice with Francesca Rheannon or find us on twitter Heller Writer’s Voice - in depth conversation with writers of all genres, on the air since 2004. Then, we re-air our 2017 interview with historian Timothy Snyder about his cautionary tale about the descent into authoritarianism. We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle.
