![]() ![]() Two awful gerunds.” Gray’s father, writes the author, “will liquidate his world in order to find his son. “For someone close to someone missing,” writes Billman, “the world is reduced to this binary: missing and searching. As he chronicles their trek across North America following leads, the author shares the rampant conspiracy theories, the skeptical yet hopeful encounters with psychics, and the emotional strain of a family who put their lives on hold in search of answers. Billman takes us along on his journey with Gray’s family as they retrace Jacob’s steps, examine the few available clues, and encounter excessive bureaucracy in their search efforts. ![]() Journalist Billman, a regular contributor to Outside, is “obsessed with writing about missing persons in wild places,” particularly those stories that “defy conventional logic…the proverbial vanish-without-a-trace incidents, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks.” In his nonfiction debut, the author focuses primarily on the case of Jacob Gray, who stepped off his red bicycle in Washington’s Olympic National Park in April 2017 and disappeared into the wilderness. True-life accounts of wilderness disappearances and the families desperately seeking closure. ![]()
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