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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9663739" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Tynion really is amazing. The Cold Vanish by Jon Billman could have been a five-star read but isn’t. It’s about people who vanish in the wilderness. A lot of people do - many thousands a year, in the US and Canada - and there’s no centralized records on them. Billman writes for magazines like Outdoors and Bicycling, and built this book around essays he’s done in the subject. A lot of it is fascinating and well-done. But he indulges his favorites. He lets a guy who works with bloodhounds go on a lot about how much other tracking dogs suck and don’t work, in flat-out contradiction to the facts. The father of a missing adult son, the man he spends most time with, spends a lot of time in dangerous denial of some day to day realities, and throughout there’s a lot of idolizing people who dump their lives in a whim and go off to do something else. Some work very hard at helping others despite personal costs, and I respect that, but others need someone to staple them down for a bit. Recommended with significant reservations.</blockquote>