TY - BOOK AU - Payton,Brian TI - The wind is not a river SN - 9781447242215 (hbk.) U1 - 813.6 23 KW - Aleutian Islands (Alaska) KW - Fiction N2 - A fight for survival. Winter 1943. In the bloody turmoil of war John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden conflict in the Japanese occupied Aleutian Islands, off the coast of Alaska. But when his plane is shot down, sent crashing into the sea, Easley will face an impossible choice: surrender; or face a desperate struggle to survive. A search for the truth. Helen Easley is consumed with worry about what could have happened to her missing husband. Desperate for news and gathering all her strength, she will set out on a journey, travelling 3000 miles from her Seattle home all the way to the Alaskan wilderness; a journey which will change her forever ...A love story like no other. At once a gripping fight for survival and a desperately moving love story; The Wind Is Not A River, perfect for fans of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, asks us what it means to bear witness and to survive ER -