Description
Eddie is drawn down again in an implacable an perilous descent, in an avalanche of destructive patterns and a past piosoned by a sexual addiction. In Verbier, during the high season, he will encounter the memory of Caligulan hedonism, indulgence, beautiful thrill-seeking women, drugs, dealings, and nights of rapaciousness. The love of Celine, a haunting Parisian, is ruined by a tragic car accident. For her safe transfer to a Paris hospital, he must ski into Italy with nuclear devices for a clientele of Iraqi terrorists. Finally, he is led by an "angel in white" across treacherous terrain to a confrontational descent with The Fates. The brown-eyed sybil deposits him at the top of the couloir, a narrow funnel of death, a white stream of terror, a crease so steep so pure in horror, it swallows his despair whole. The descent beckons...