Ascension

Scottish author Binge makes his U.S. debut with this arresting speculative thriller (with a dash of horror) about the disastrous mission to investigate an enormous mountain that suddenly materializes in the South Pacific. Scientist Harold Tunmore was part of that expedition and has been presumed dead for nearly thirty years—but then his brother finds him in a psychiatric hospital, along with countless unsent letters from the mountain. In these urgent and intimate letters, Harold tells his then-teenage niece every detail of the expedition in real time: the impossible things he witnesses, the growing animosity among their group, his escalating terror as he observes how the mountain warps his companion’s minds. Thrilling and original, while echoing greats like Dracula and At the Mountains of Madness. For fans of the TV series Lost and Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly.