When the body of a young woman is found embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek, it takes little time to identify her. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism and her picture is on police computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trial of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?

In a devastating journey of discovery that takes us from the streets of New York to the daunting grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, The Divide tells the story of a family fractured by betrayal. It explores the pain we inflict on those we love the most and charts the passions and needs, the dashed hopes and disillusionments, that connect and divide all men and women.

Nicholas Evans was born and grew up in Worcestershire. Before writing his first novel, The Horse Whisper-- later made into a film directed by Robert Redford -- he worked as a journalist, film producer and screen-writer.The Divide is his fourth novel.Nicholas Evans lives in Devon.