In the wake of the Warriors' failure to win a championship, it's hard to remember just how gripping their quest to beat the Bulls was.
As Daniel Yergin writes in "The Quest," his gripping history of energy innovation, Mitchell fought through waves of skepticism and opposition to extract natural gas from shale.
Elaine Morgan, now almost 90, gives a gripping account of her life-long quest to prove that her theory that humans are descended from an aquatic ape.
How they did, and how they became Hungary's quest for the holy grail, is a gripping tale, helped along by Mr Tanner's penchant for intriguing asides.
This novel, inspired by real-life events, tells the gripping story of a female slave on a heroic quest to escape captivity, via a literal railway system.
But Mr. Martinez, 20 years old, is still an undergraduate, and the novelty of the quest has gripped him.
(Knopf, $17.99). This gripping debut finds humor as well as pathos in15-year-old Julia's quest to uncover her Mexican-American family's secrets after the death of her seemingly dutiful sister.
Finally, Romesh Gunesekera's Heaven's Edge (Bloomsbury) is his best book so far - brilliant, as ever, on atmosphere, but this quest for love and the past set in a fallen paradise also has a gripping plot and startling denouement.
This strange, bold, gripping, and wonderful novel is the story of a power-struggle, a double love-story, a quest-story, and a story of trickery and disguise.
