Authors: Jeff Long
ISBN-13: 9780515131758, ISBN-10: 051513175X
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: Reissue
Jeff Long is a veteran climber and traveler in the Himalayas. He has worked as a journalist, a historian, and an elections supervisor for Bosnia's first democratic election. The Descent is his fourth novel. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Hell exists.
In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....
A remarkable novel, an imaginative tour de force...It is a rip-roaring good read.