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Into the Abyss by Carol Shaben – book cover

Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story

By Carol Shaben

Biographies and Memoirs

Only four men survived the plane crash: The pilot, A politician, A cop . . . And the criminal he was shackled to. On a freezing October night in 1984, a Canadian commuter plane smashed headlong into a high ridge…

Release Date
2012
Length
330 pages
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
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Only four men survived the plane crash: The pilot, A politician, A cop . . . And the criminal he was shackled to. On a freezing October night in 1984, a Canadian commuter plane smashed headlong into a high ridge of remote, rugged forest. Among the survivors was a small-time criminal named Paul Archimbault, now free of his handcuffs and the only one to escape the crash uninjured. The only one capable of keeping the other three survivors alive — should he choose to…