new book

Ive started the book, Alive by Piers Paul Read which is the story of a group of Rugby players that are in a plane crash in the Andes Mountains. This book starts off with a brief description of the geography that the story will be taking place in and gives us a slight idea of the conditions that the characters will be enduring. It starts off with a story of the Christian Brothers, a group of Irish Missionaries that went to Montivideo to start a Christian school for the boys in the town. The author does a good job describing the conditions that the brothers were in when coming to Latin America and the differences in culture. I am sure that there will be subtle similarities and differences in the lives of the players and that those subtle things will determine their future.