Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix Teig Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, the coldest place on Earth, collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Unions gulag prisoners. But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberias Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. As the chase continues along this road paved with the suffering of angry ghosts, what form will the echoes of their anguish take? Teig and the others will have to find the answers if they want to survive the Road of Bones- Book Synopsis An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Goldens Road of Bones, a tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell (Stephen King) supernatural thriller. A malignant, animistic shaman and the forest spirits he commands pursues them as they flee the abandoned town and barrel across miles of deserted permafrost. Teig is fascinated by the culture along the Road of Bones, and encounters strange characters on the way to the Oymyakon, but when the team arrives, they find the village mysteriously abandoned apart from a mysterious nine-year-old girl. Accompanied by his camera operator, Teig hires a local Yakut guide to take them to Oymyakon, the coldest settlement on Earth. Felix Teigland, or Teig, is a documentary producer, and when he learns about the Road of Bones, he realizes hes stumbled upon untapped potential. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath the road. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. About the Book A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalins gulag.

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