The High Wire Descent A Heart-Stopping Survival Thriller
One crash. Two towers. One hundred feet of wire between life and the abyss.
A quiet evening at the city’s most exclusive skyscraper summit shatters when a stray Cessna slams into the 60th-floor penthouse, turning luxury into a glass-strewn inferno.
Above the impact zone, survivors are trapped in a collapsing tomb. Stairs choke with toxic smoke. Elevators are twisted wreckage. The building groans, floors buckle, fire races upward. No helicopter. No ladder. No rescue from below.
Their only way out: a single, rusted maintenance cable strung taut across the void to the sister tower’s roof—one hundred feet of thin steel over a sheer drop into the night.
Gale-force winds howl between the skyscrapers. The wire sways and sings with strain. Every handhold is a gamble, every step a prayer. Trust your grip, your balance, your courage—or plummet into the dark.
In this breathless, vertigo-inducing race against gravity, flames, and fear, ordinary people become extraordinary.
They must cross the impossible high wire while the world burns behind them.
Edge-of-your-seat, claustrophobic, and relentlessly intense—perfect for fans of high-rise disaster thrillers, survival epics, and stories that push human limits to the breaking point.
Don’t look down. Just move.
Details
- Publication Date
- Mar 28, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781105459580
- Category
- Fiction
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): DILLON HANNIEL
Specifications
- Pages
- 252
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)
Keywords
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