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    Blind Descent
    Blind Descent
    Blind Descent
    Audiobook12 hours

    Blind Descent

    Written by Nevada Barr

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

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    Award-winning author Nevada Barr fills the pages of Blind Descent with heart-stopping suspense, plots that twist around every corner, and spectacular wilderness settings. When park ranger Anna Pigeon embarks on a thrilling subterranean rescue mission, she confronts personal demons and a multitude of life-threatening dangers-not all of them from the hostile terrain. A fellow ranger is injured in a suspicious accident while exploring the mostly unmapped Lechuguilla Cavern in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. During a fleeting moment of consciousness, the victim calls for Anna. Battling her paralyzing fear of small spaces, Anna descends into the lifeless underworld to uncover what really happened. As Anna wriggles through cramped tunnels and climbs rocky precipices, she discovers treachery and destruction lurking in the inky black just beyond her headlamp. Veteran narrator Barbara Rosenblat provides the perfect voice for the courageous, but very human, park ranger and her colleagues.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 29, 2004
    ISBN9781449801229
    Blind Descent
    Author

    Nevada Barr

    NEVADA BARR is a novelist, actor, and artist best known for her New York Times bestselling, award-winning mystery series featuring Anna Pigeon. A former National Park Service Ranger, she currently lives with her husband in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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    • 5/5
      One of the best in the series. Some very creepy and intense scenes in the depths of Lechiguilla Cave!
    • 2/5
      I liked the descriptions of caving, but the mystery does not hold up.
    • 4/5
      How Anna Pigeon got started in the national parks.As always the author Nevada Barr keeps you twisting and turning until the final chapter. She uses the story to tell many facts about the area and what the people involved go thru to complete the job.
    • 3/5
      Book six in the mystery series starring U.S. Park Ranger Anna Pigeon takes Anna to New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns, where one of her friends, and an avid caver, has been seriously injured while exploring a new (and not open to the public) cave system. Frieda has a serious head injury and is mostly unconscious, but she has asked for Anna. So, Anna swallows her claustrophobia to come to her friend’s aid. In a brief moment of lucidity, Frieda tells Anna that it was not an accident. Much of the action in this book takes place in the confined spaces underground, and Barr spends a lot of time setting up the mystery and going into excruciating detail on the difficulties of exploring such a cave. I felt a little claustrophobic myself a few times. I like Anna; she’s mentally and physically strong, intelligent, independent, and fiercely determined. Barr includes issues of corporate greed and environmental concerns, while extolling the majestic beauty of pristine caves, and praising the dedication of scientists and volunteers who try to map newly discovered underground treasures. This is a totally satisfying mystery in a series with a strong female lead.
    • 3/5
      Good series.
    • 4/5
      I’ve been to a lot of US National Parks and Monuments but not to the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. I do hope to get there someday but in the meantime reading a book set there is a good alternative. Nevada Barr’s books are a good way to virtually travel to a variety of National Parks and also get the scoop on what goes on behind the scenes. Nevada was a park ranger for a while so she knows the parks and she loves them. Anna Pigeon is a ranger in the Mesa Verde National Park but she has been seconded to the Carlsbad Caverns to be press liaison while an injured caver is recovered from the neighbouring cave system of Lechuguilla. A claustrophobe, Anna has no intention of going into the cave system until she finds out that the injured person is a friend, Frieda Dierkz, and has requested that Anna come with the rescue mission. Gamely, Anna agrees and soon finds herself deep under the earth. She is with two experienced cavers and she manages to reach her friend. Frieda is semi-comatose by then but she wakes up long enough to tell Anna that her injury was not an accident. Anna keeps this to herself but tries to determine who might want to harm Frieda. Unfortunately Frieda is killed in another “accident” while evacuating her and Anna has to figure who of the small group of people in the cave with Frieda killed her. There are lots of details about the cave system and how cavers explore. I am quite sure I would never want to go into a cave that was not open to the public but it does make for interesting reading. The resolution of the murder is also interesting; I had a suspicion about the person responsible but the uncovering was still a surprise.
    • 4/5
      It's been a long time since I read this book but I have read the entire series, up until the most current book and I really like it. I love how the series is set outdoors in the different parks. If you like C.J. Box, then you'll like Barr too.
    • 4/5
      Reading Nevada Barr's mysteries is the next best thing to visiting the National Parks that become her crime scene. Blind Descent gives you the willies as she takes you deep into caver territory climbing, crawling with just a small amount of light leading the way. What better location for a murder than deep in a cave with darkness smothering you. Great read as Anna flips her way through a cast of characters to find the killer of her friend Frieda.
    • 5/5
      This might be my favorite Nevada Barr. There is something so creepy and primal about everything that happens underground in the cave. It is like a twist on the locked room mystery and a great one at that.
    • 4/5
      Great book, excellent narrator (audiobook) - brings a new view on "spelunking" for those of us who've never done more than take a few cavern tours. I never knew that there's a whole subculture that thrives on finding the deepest cave in the world. How they absolutely know that they've now found the absolute deepest cave is beyond me (the book clearly says that "the deepest cave" on earth has been found), but this is the story of the past few decades (approx 1990s - 2010s) search for that honor. Highly recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      Like always, Nevada Barr never disappoints.
    • 5/5
      Another of my Barr favorites. Talk about getting claustrophobic while reading this! Wow!
    • 5/5
      This is probably my favorite book in this series - the location (Carlsbad Caves) captures the imagination and Ms. Barr's descriptions of both the caves and Anna's struggle with claustrophobia are wonderfully done. The mystery is good and there is both suspense and that gritty determination that Anna Pigeon is known for.
    • 4/5
      In Blind Descent Anna Pigeon finds herself deep in Lechuguilla Cave and in over her head. Going to the aid of an injured friend, Anna becomes a target for murder as she tries to unravel the mystery surrounding her friend. If you have never been in a cave, this book is not likely to entice you into becoming a caver. Danger lurks around each bend and during each ascent and descent. Well written and with a variety of interesting characters, this entertaining book will keep you turning page after page and holding your breath. Leave the lights on – there are people in the dark to be feared . . . but which ones are they?
    • 5/5
      The plot of Blind Descent is fast paced and uncomplicated so it's possible to read it in just one or two days. Barr's attention to detail and the descriptions of caves and caving had me riveted. Anna Pigeon is a park ranger who has been called to help with a friend's rescue from a subterranean cave. Anna is extremely claustrophobic and therefor not an experience caver. The location in the cave where her friend was injured is so difficult to get to I questioned why she was allowed to accompany rescue personnel on this dangerous mission. It seemed implausible that she would be allowed to participate just because her injured friend requested her. When rescue turns into murder Anna is determined to solve the mystery. Because Anna Pigeon is a reoccurring character in other Nevada Barr books her character development evolves a little at a time and the reader never gets the full picture of Anna from one book. In other words, read them all!
    • 5/5
      Do not begin this book when you have little time to read - I found it VERY thrilling indeed. I love the Anna Pigeon series, and this book was the best so far for me. A friend of Anna has gone caving and has had a serious accident. She's asking for Anna to come - but Anna is claustrophobic and would never enter a cave of her own free will. Still, when a friend is in need, she feels she has to go. The accident turns out not to have been an accident after all, and more mayhem is on the way...Loved it.
    • 5/5
      Anna Pigeon overcomes claustrophobia to solve a subterranean murder.
    • 3/5
      Mystery that takes place in the Carlsbad caves of New Mexico. Entertaining read.