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  • Published: 1 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241534830
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $37.00

Breathless

This year’s most gripping thriller and Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month




When you're this high up, no one can hear you scream: an ice-cold thriller from an expert mountaineer turned bestselling author

At the top of the world's tallest mountains, there literally isn't enough oxygen to breathe. In the space of hours your body will begin to shut down. Any longer, and death is inevitable.

What better place for a serial killer to find their next victim?

Struggling journalist Cecily Wong is delighted to be invited to interview famed mountaineer Charles McVeigh, conditional on joining his team on one of the Himalayas' toughest peaks.

But on the mountain, it's clear something is wrong. It begins small - a theft, an accidental fall. And then a note, pinned to her tent in the night: there's a murderer on the mountain...

  • Published: 1 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241534830
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $37.00

About the author

Amy McCulloch

Amy McCulloch is the Chinese-White author of Breathless – an international bestseller and Waterstones Thriller of the Month selection – The Girl on the Ice, Runner 13 and Watch Her Fall, as well as eight novels for children and young adults. She has climbed two of the world's highest mountains, learned to skydive solo, completed an ultra-marathon in the Sahara Desert, and visited all seven continents, including Antarctica.

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