Ascent To Hell

About the Book

This is a story of our time, compelling and topical as today's headlines—an action adventure about a group of men and women from divergent and disparate backgrounds who pit their climbing skills, stamina and ambitions against a towering mountain range in the Middle East.

As the expedition's men and women encounter the stress of harrowing high-altitude climbing, they are also challenged by their own inner demons affecting marriage, personal relationships and even basic self-esteem.

Battling these wrenching forces and faced with the drama of heartbreaking heroism, two leading characters, Nic and Laura, are catapulted along a path of discovery at once painful and inspirational, yet tempered by modern humor.

Heightened by the mosaic of contemporary tensions and international intrigue, amid clashes of personal conflicts, a breathtaking story unfolds until the powerful legend of the mountain rises again in a climax at once terrifying and awesome.

About the Author

PEGGY PHILLIPS has been a professional writer and public relations specialist for more than 40 years.

In the 1960s and '70s she was Director of Publicity for Center Theatre Group at the Los Angeles Music Center's Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatres, as well as Director of Publicity for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.

A member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America, she is a produced Broadway playwright, and a film and television writer whose credits include "Days of Our Lives", "Lassie", "National Velvet","The Donna Reed Show", "My Three Sons", "My Sister Eileen", NBC Matinee Theatre, Kraft Theatre, "Adventures of Robin Hood", and "You Are There".

Her first published novel, "Two Women Under Water" (1998) describes a dramatic encounter in the Red Sea during a scuba-diving trip. Her second, "A Golden Sorrow", (2000), involves a highly charged confrontation between Napoleon's two sons.