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Review Of Stan Bailey's 'Snow Storm Rescue'
Novelist Pens Survival Story in a Chilly Setting
Love movies like Vertical Limit and Frozen? Then you’ll also love Stan Bailey’s survival thriller.

What it is to get caught in a snowstorm? How do you survive if you get stranded in a blizzard while travelling in unfamiliar territory? Readers could relate to – and pray not to experience what Jim Henderson goes through in the survival thriller Snow Storm Rescue.

Written by Stan Bailey and published by Dog Ear Publishing in 2014, Snow Storm Rescue pits Jim against Mother Nature. The novel’s protagonist finds an inopportune time to go out and get trapped under snow. What follows next is a chilling ordeal of a man, physically built to endure ordinary life’s challenges, fighting for his life amid lower chances of survival in the terrible cold. …show more content…

Bailey’s third novel is one of the books that will be displayed at the upcoming 2017 American Library Association Annual Conference on June 23, 2017.

A story like Bailey’s Snow Storm Rescue is the reason why readers are drawn to survival

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