The Smoke Jumper

The fire that was to change so many lives started with a single shaft of lightning that struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night. Connor Ford, the Smoke Jumper, braves the the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have.

In the wake of the fire, Connor travels to the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but not happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, when he must walk through fire again ...

“'This is a formidably able book, throwing a great deal ofnew light on to subjects hitherto partly known or quite unknown; fullof surprises, mercifully free of the minor errors of fact that besetsensational literature, lucidly written, and a solid contribution totwentieth-century history' M R D Foot, THE SPECTATOR”

The Smoke Jumper is a tale of loyalty and guilt, honour and selfless love, and the human cost of choices made. - Lois Faye Dyer, Amazon.com

Nicholas Evans was a screenwriter and film producer before writing his first novel, The Horse Whisperer. He lives in Devon.

The fire that was to change so many lives started with a single shaft of lightning that struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night. Connor Ford, the Smoke Jumper, braves the the flames to save the woman he loves but cannot have.In the wake of the fire, Connor travels to the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but not happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, when he must walk through fire again ...

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