Those Who Wish Me Dead

from Randall.Hansen

One of my favorite books I've read this year... it's got Montana mountains, hiking and survival training, as well as a fire tower and forest fire. It's a story of a survival expert who takes troubled kids in the summers and teaches them self-reliance and teamwork... and then one summer he is aske...

from CKGS

Jace Wilson, 14, witnesses a murder and is sent to a wilderness skills program in Montana to hide him from the killers. Allison and Ethan run a survival camp for troubled teens and decide they will take him on without the knowledge of which boy in the group is the witness. Jace escapes from two b...

from MikeBruscellSr

Anyone can derive the plot line from the dust jacket, so it needn't be addressed here. What is fabulous about this book is the skill of Michael Koryta in creating characters - simply astounding! I love this genre, but rarely have I enjoyed seeing pure sociopathic/psychopathic evil breathed to lif...

from vnesting

Oh. My. God. This is sooooooooooo good. Thirteen-year-old Jace saw a man being murdered and now the killers want silence the only witness to their crime. He is sent to a remote Montana wilderness camp to keep him safe, but Jace knows it's just a matter of time before the killers find him. With br...

from jeff1124

Michael Koryta has written his best book yet. It starts quickly and gallops non-stop to an extremely satisfying, nerve-wracking conclusion that just about insists that you keep reading. It is the story of a boy named Jace who is witness to a murder. The killers are after him and he is to be hidde...