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    The Third Man
    The Third Man
    The Third Man
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    The Third Man

    By Malachi King

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    When two young men get lost in Alaska’s mountainous wilderness, they slowly begin to die of exposure. As their senses become numb, they become aware of a third man traveling with them at times, and are too disoriented to make contact. When the two young men collapse in exhaustion and give themselves over to death, the mysterious third man appears again. Is he there to help, hinder...or is he even there at all?

    Based on a phenomenon experienced in the real world by various adventurers including mountaineers on Everest and by the Shackleton survivors in the Antarctic, The Third Man redefines the modern ghost story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUntreed Reads
    Release dateFeb 28, 2013
    ISBN9781611875218
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    • 1/5
      This “third man” is an interesting premise, but very poorly executed here. The writing is terrible and cheesy with way too many adjectives. Just a waste: a great premise ruined by bad writing.
    • 4/5
      Book source ~ Many thanks to Untreed Reads for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

      Jarvis Suluk and Tom Hurley, two young men living in Seldovia, Alaska, are primed for outdoor adventures. Becoming fast friends they shared many explorations but none would compare to the one the one that almost ended their lives. Deciding they wanted to go see the wolf den on Elephant Point and not finding a boat to take them across Seldovia Bay they choose to take Tom’s homemade raft across since it had proved seaworthy on many trips on the water. However, as smart as Jarvis was about the great outdoors they forgot to take into consideration the turn of the tide. That’s where their adventure goes horribly wrong.

      A simple fact overlooked can sometimes cause the biggest problems and heartache. This story tells the tale of Tom and Jarvis as they struggle to survive what should have been a simple overnight excursion. Was the third man real or just a hallucination brought on by hypothermia, hunger, dehydration and exhaustion? I love stories about Alaska and even though this one is full of anxiety it is very well-written. I felt as if I was there with them in the cold and snow. I even thought I saw the third man for a moment. I wonder how many see a third man, too yet fail to live to tell the tale? Chilling.
    • 5/5
      The Third Man is a short story that is one part adventure story, and one part fantastic. It concerns two men who end up lost in the Alaskan Wilderness; however, they start to see another man with them. Tom and Jarvis met whilst they were both in High School and became friends over their love of the outdoors. One day, the pair decides to travel across the bay to see a Wolf den, but they are unable to secure a boat ride. Deciding to use Tom’s home-made raft, they set off paddling across the bay; unfortunately, the tide starts to pull them out to sea as a fog descends and they try to out wait the fog by a buoy.
      As the story continues, they wait until the tide isn’t as strong and they start to make for home. As I mentioned earlier, they eventually end up stuck in the middle of the Wilderness during a nasty snow storm. It is there that Tom first feels the presence of the third man and as the story progresses, he hears the man urging Tom to keep going.
      I really enjoyed the way this story opens up with Tom and Jarvis trapped out in the open during a winter storm. It created a sense of drama, and then, we are told in flashbacks who these people are, and how they got there. Also, the writer gives us a little bit of Seldovia’s/Alaska’s history; but what I really loved was the supernatural element injected into the story by the introduction of this third man – who is he? Is he a helpful ghost as Jarvis thinks? Maybe a spirit of the ancestors sent back to help them? I definitely recommend this short story to those who love adventure/survival stories. Enjoy!

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    The Third Man - Malachi King

    The Third Man

    By Malachi King

    Copyright 2013 by Malachi King

    Cover Copyright 2013 by Ginny Glass and Untreed Reads Publishing

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    This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to the living or dead is entirely coincidental.

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    In the barren reaches of Alaska’s Kanai Mountains, wind burned and pierced with biting cold, Tom Hurly and Jarvis Suluk swore they saw a third man. He was hunched over, hood over his head, rimmed against the swirling white, suffering alongside of them. Their faces were too frozen to speak, and they only saw him on occasion, but later they would tell others of him. He had been out there on the glacier with them, he had been in the pine forest, and he had been there at the drowsy threshold of consciousness to pull them back at the last crucial moment. It was the third man, not their own wills that saved them from the slow agonies of death deep in the Alaskan wilderness.

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