The Uttermost Place is a thriller set in the wild's of Patagonia. A land of incredible mountains, huge glaciers, vast forests and relentless wind. It is the development of a forest project that drives the story. The novel's protagonist, comes to Patagonian Chile to buy a mine. He is a mining engineer, and always a risk-taker. His most recent mine deal was a disaster, costing him his girlfriend, his savings, and tainting his professional reputation. Now he's at the uttermost place on earth, lured by another deal. He has also agreed to look at a forest on Tierra del Fuego for a Chilean friend. The forest is a surprise - vast and valuable - and catches his imagination. The two friends plunge in, purchasing forestland. But they have problems - unscrupulous and deadly rivals, a missing Sweden forestry expert, and a German environmentalist - a woman with attitude.