This is about smoke jumping people: very fit young men, in Montana and probably other American states, who are dropped into or just outside major forest fires and, by cutting fire-breaks or fire-walls, prevent fires from spreading and eventually put them out. A cracking good tale and unputdownable. By the author of The Horse Whisperer, but better still.
(Charles Moncreiffe - bwl 17 February 2003 ) |
