Iditarod: a Novel of The Greatest Race on Earth

by Andre Jute

“Andre Jute's Iditarod is the finest piece of fiction that I have read about The Greatest Race on Earth. Packed with adventure at every turn, nail-biting suspense, touches of endearing humor and the fine, subtle thread of romance, this tale speaks to what readers crave.” 

Margie Myers-Culver/Librarian’s Quest 

IDITAROD 

a novel of 

The Greatest Race on Earth 

Marchez! — A race for survival  

When Rhodes Delaney challenged James Alderston Whitbury III to a grudge match she chose the most grueling of all tests — the Iditarod: a lethal dogsled race across the perilous wastelands of barren Alaska. 

Through life-sapping storms, howling blizzards, and deadly sub-zero temperatures, the racers must struggle over treacherous mountain passes where the sun’s rays never reach, cross frozen rivers risking the icy torrents below, and pass enraged bull moose, ravenous bears — and the world’s largest, hungriest wolf pack. 

In Iditarod, André Jute puts the reader’s feet on the ice and on the runners for twelve hundred hazardous miles of the last great race across the last dangerous frontier as the exhausted bodies and hallucinating minds of the contestants battle towards the moment of truth — when Man and Nature exact the ultimate reckoning from each other. 

Iditarod is at once a love story, a great adventure, and a brilliant word portrait of the world’s most spectacular and least-known land. 

— Nick Austin 

• First published in the UK by Grafton Books in 1990, Iditarod was fully revised for the 21th anniversary edition by CoolMain Press. This edition also includes a map specifically drawn to work well with ebook readers and tablets. 

• On its 21st anniversary in 2011, Iditarod won the Flamingnet Young Adult Book Reviews TOP CHOICE AWARD. 

“Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.” 
New York Times 

“Jute has clearly conducted a great deal of research into everything he describes, investing the novel with an air of prophecy. His moral and ecological concerns are important.” 
Times Literary Supplement 

337 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 5, 2013

About the author

André Jute was educated in Australia, South Africa and the United States. He has been an intelligence officer, racing driver, advertising executive, management consultant, performing arts critic and professional gambler. His hobbies include old Bentleys, classical music (on which he writes a syndicated weekly column), cycling, hill walking, cooking and wine. He designs and builds his own tube (valve) audio amplifiers. He is married to Rosalind Pain-Hayman and they have a son. They live on a hill over a salmon river in County Cork, Eire. There are around three hundred editions of his books in English and a dozen other languages.