Is the old legend of the mountain guides about a supernatural force dropping people into the depths just a scary rumour, or does it contain a grain of truth?
A former climber suffering from a panic fear of heights stumbles upon a legend about a rock platform in the Tatras, where an unknown force forces people who stray there to jump into a chasm and kill themselves. The unusual number of fatal accidents in the area has left him sleepless. He starts his own investigation, but the facts he uncovers are beyond human imagination and understanding. He will pay a heavy price for his curiosity - he will find himself on the edge of the abyss.
The Abyss is another mystery thriller from the pen of Jozef Karika, author of Strach, Trhlina, Tma or Smršt'.
Jozef Karika
Born in 1978 in Ružomberok, he is a Slovak writer and journalist, a bestselling author who has sold more than 350,000 copies of his books in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the biggest book poll in Slovakia - Martinus Book of the Year 2014 - he was ranked first among the TOP 5 authors, two years later he came second. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Pen Literary Critics' Prize for his novels The Abyss and The Black Game, an eight-time winner of the Golden Book Award and a three-time winner of the Platinum Book Award (for his novels In the Shadow of the Mafia, The Rift and The Abyss). The novel Fear became the best horror novel of 2017 in Poland, while Trhlina won the most prestigious Slovak reader's prize Anasoft litera in 2017. In 2019, director Peter Bebjak made a film of the same name based on this novel, which rewrote history in Slovakia with its attendance.
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