Summit by Harry Farthing

Summit by Harry FarthingSummit a novel. In the autumn of 1938 Germanys Reichsfhrer, Heinrich Himmler, is growing frustrated at the British using their regional power in India to block passage of an SS expedition to Tibet. Determined to spite them, he plots to steal something the British hold dear and have failed for the seventh time that spring to achieve a first summit of Mount Everest. Seventy years later, seasoned mountain guide Neil Quinn's ninth visit to the top of the

those times when you know that someone likes you

whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown

craving and delusion

All the twenty-four principles (tattvas) of Prakriti exist in this limited corporeal body

and all we need is a little hope in between

meddling parents and self-important cousins

A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists

This book reverses the damage

but the fourth is a total unknown

Whatever our souls are made of

and unyielding faith

Kim Jiyoung is depressed