Clint Willis

This gripping account of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells the story of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent.

Year after year, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to mistakes, bad weather, and bad luck, which often leads to death....

Rescue offers riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places...

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature...

These stories exude suffering at its worst - from the desperate cannibalism of the Donner Party...

Mob opens terrifying windows on the brutal and mysterious world of organized crime...