The Strode Venturer
by Hammond Innes | 
The House of the Four Winds
by John Buchan | 
The Curse of the Viking Grave
by Farley Mowat | 
Huntingtower
by John Buchan | 
Zero Hour
by Clive Cussler | 
Hungry as the Sea
by Wilbur Smith | 
Golden Fox
by Wilbur Smith | 
The Free Fishers
by John Buchan | 
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
by Emma Hooper | 
Salute to Adventurers
by John Buchan | 
The Courts of the Morning
by John Buchan | 
Castle Gay
by John Buchan | 
Hazardous Duty
by W. E. B. Griffin | 
The Eye of the Tiger
by Wilbur Smith |
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel |
Sick Heart River is John Buchan's most powerful novel and his last, completed days before his death. It was published posthumously in 1941. Buchan's rich descriptions of the rugged Canadian Northwest Territories are influenced by his real-life voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937. At that time, Buchan was Governor-General of Canada. The main character, the lawyer and politician Sir Edward Leithen--perhaps the most autobiographical of Buchan's characters--has been diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. A former colleague, American John S. Blenkiron, requests help to find his niece's husband, who appears to have flown from his very successful financial career to the Canadian north. Leithen agrees to help.
