In “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town,” Krakauer recounts the horrifying circumstances of a series of sexual assaults against college-age women in Missoula, Mont., focusing specifically on cases that challenge our culture’s most deeply held beliefs about what constitutes rape. Everest in 1996 - that Krakauer is a writer committed above all else to asking difficult questions, even if he discovers himself to be implicated by the answer. One gets the distinct impression, reading any of his bestselling books - including his 1997 hit “Into Thin Air,” which scrutinizes the role he and others in his expedition may have played in drawing one another into tragedy on Mt. Well known in the United States and abroad as the author of the 1996 bestseller “Into the Wild” - which explored the disturbing circumstances surrounding the death of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old from a wealthy East Coast family whose remains were found by a moose hunter in the Alaskan wilderness - Krakauer established himself early on as a master of blending meticulous observation with careful research and stark, compelling storytelling.
Jon Krakauer has made a career of crafting narratives from investigations into destructive impulses.
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