The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. His eighth work of fiction, Burn, was published on August 13 (Knopf) and follows two lifelong friends and ...

Peter Heller’s string of gripping adventures gets darker and a bit more political in his latest, “Burn.” Fans of Leif Enger’s“I Cheerfully Refuse,” released last spring, will recognize the territory.

In Peter Heller’s tense new novel, “Burn,” two men emerge from their annual off-the-grid hunting trip in the wilds of Maine to a changed world. They encounter bridges blown to bits. Burned buildings ...