Those Who Wish Me Dead

Product Description

This “heart-thumping backwoods adventure” (New York Times Book Review) from bestselling author Michael Koryta will soon be a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult. 

When fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he’s plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers.

The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and the boy are Ethan and Allison Serbin, who run the wilderness survival program; Hannah Faber, who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower; and endless miles of desolate Montana mountains. The clock is ticking, the mountains are burning, and those who wish Jace Wilson dead are no longer far behind.

“Outstanding in every way…Don’t you dare miss it.” –Lee Child

Review

“Warning: Michael Koryta’s wonderful, riveting, and harrowing
Those Who Wish Me Dead may just move you to tears. Enjoy at your own risk.”―
Harlan Coben,
#1 bestselling author of Missing You and Six Years

“The summer of 2014 brings
Those Who Wish Me Dead, a lean, propulsive action-adventure thriller with a raging forest fire as its backdrop and with much more finesse than that description might suggest. The ingenious tricks and conversational wit of
Those Who Wish Me Dead don’t usually come with this territory….Attitude is one of Mr. Koryta’s strongest attributes. He barges through this story with utter confidence, which makes its bravado impossible to resist.”―
Janet Maslin,
The New York Times

“Outstanding in every way, and a guaranteed thriller-of-the-year…Stephen King would be proud of the set up, Cormac McCarthy would be proud of the writing, and I would be proud of the action. Don’t you dare miss it.”
―
Lee Child,
#1 bestselling author of Never Go Back

”
Those Who Wish Me Dead is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, ‘What will happen next?’ I highly recommend it.”
―
Kevin Powers,
National Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Birds

“Reading Michael Koryta is like stepping into fast water. You don’t know where the current will take you, only that it’s strong and deep and likely to sweep you away. That’s what the best fiction does, and Koryta does it better than just about anyone else.”
―
John Hart,
author of Iron House

“Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer.
Those Who Wish Me Dead is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year – or any other year. The pace never lets up.”―
Nelson DeMille,
author of The Quest

“Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful.
Those Who Wish Me Dead is Koryta at his best.”―
William Kent Krueger,
author of Ordinary Grace

“Michael Koryta is a fearless stylist…a heart-thumping backwoods adventure that sends two creatively sadistic killers into Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, where they spark a monster forest fire to flush out the only witness to their crimes…Koryta rigs his tripwire plot with all sorts of unpredictable characters and unforeseen events, including a “flint-and-steel” electrical storm that will make your hair stand on end. There are any number of hunting parties combing the burning woods for Jace, from the Blackwell brothers to two determined women riding an injured horse. But sitting here, heart in mouth, it sure looks as if that raging forest fire will outrun them all.”
―
Marilyn Stasio,
The New York Times