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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780399155055
ISBN number: 0399155058
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: July 15, 2008
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 58654
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in a stunning new thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
When a skier goes missing at Sun Valley’s Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt Fleming quickly assembles his crack search-and-rescue team and heads out into the snowy night. Despite the treacherous conditions, Walt and his group, including deputy Tommy Brandon and Walt’s best friend, Mark Aker, set off on skis, accompanied by highly trained search dogs. Within minutes, something goes horribly wrong: a shot rings out, and one of their team is dead. By morning, Mark Aker has disappeared.
Torn between professional responsibility and the desperate urge to find his friend, Walt is further challenged by an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings. Following threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun Valley leads Walt to an unlikely—and darker—source, and reveals a crime played out on a much larger scale than he originally envisioned. Waist-deep in snow and knee-deep in lies, the life of his friend in the balance, Walt begins to suspect that the whole operation is controlled by people of great wealth and power, which leaves him where he started: out in the cold.
From adrenaline-charged start to explosive finish, Killer View is heart-stopping suspense at its very best.
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As a travelogue of the nice Sun Valley area, this is a readable book. The plot is far-fetched, but works, with a few unbelievable parts thrown in. Sheriff Fleming's personality, for example. In one place after another, the author emphasizes how Walt has learned to not react quickly to situations, to be calm. But when he gets a phone call about his wife and children, nothing terribly bad, he throws his phone across the living room, breaking the glass in the window! There is also the unbelievable recovery of his deputy sheriff, badly wounded on Tuesday, shot, with an exit wound in his shoulder the size of a golf ball, blood spurting out, and the subsequent day the same plucky deputy going with Walt on a hard outing up in the mountains. Added to this is the description of the sheriff riding a glider up into the mountains, it getting pitch dark, and managing to land the glider in a small snowy meadow area near the cabin holding the villain. This guy is something. But the story does end, and while we don't know much more about Walt's possible relationship with Fiona, looks like we'll know more when the subsequent Pearson book comes out.
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Christopher Lane's vocal talents include over 150 audiobooks, so he spices well Ridley Pearson's Killer View, a story of a missing skier and a sheriff whose rescue team begins vanishing. Friendships, biohazard potentials and murder coincide to challenge Walt's community foundations in a fine, involving audio highly recommended for any general-interest listening audience.
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Sun Valley Sheriff Walt Fleming faces a formidable task in this sequel novel. Not only must he fight the elements of the natural environment, face the deterioration of his marriage, work with a valued deputy bedding Walt's soon-to-be ex-wife, solve acts of terrorism but also solve a murder, rescue a friend and perform all sort of social good deeds, not to mention running for reelection. How's that for a plot?
The story is a real thriller, from the chase of the villains to the travails of the storms and the environment. The pacing is quick and sure, and the descriptions of Sun Valley and the Idaho landscape (it is home to the author) vivid.
Recommended.
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Buried in an early snowstorm, the Sun Valley, Idaho, mountains play a major role in Ridley's second Sheriff Walt Fleming thriller. The story begins with a nighttime mountain search-and-rescue, and goes on to include snowbound cabin hideouts, isolated ranchers, buzzing snowmobiles, chases through the snow and among the peaks, and even a crucial and spectacular encounter with a hibernating bear.
Fleming's search for a missing skier fans out snowshoeing teams with dogs across the mountain, and includes one skier who crosses the slope from the top, Randy Aker. The operation culminates in Randy's murder and the subsequent day his brother Mark, the sheriff's friend, goes missing.
The missing skier was a hoax, of course - someone targeted Randy - or Mark, as it seems he was the intended victim. This surmise is confirmed when veterinarian Mark's young assistant turns up at a hospital, brutally raped and beaten and so drugged she remembers nothing.
The reader has the advantage of Fleming here as Pearson has been cutting to the villain, John Coats, a mountain man and former meth addict who views himself as a hero on a patriotic mission. What this mission is, who is behind it, and why, remains a mystery for Fleming to solve.
Help in this comes from his top deputy and nemesis Tommy Brandon (who is living with Fleming's estranged wife) and an attractive photographer who provides a tentative new love interest while she pieces together crime scenes. Strange illnesses further complicate the puzzle as time begins running out for diabetic Mark Akers.
As the story accelerates, cutting from Fleming to Akers to Coats, the terrain and the weather continue to immerse the reader in Sun Valley's mixed milieu of money, independence and wilderness.
Pearson gives the reader a fast-paced, big story in big country with characters who continue to grow. Yes, there are one or two small holes in the plot, but the ride is well worth a couple of bumps.
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This was the very first book I read from Pearson and I throughly enjoyed it. I recommend this book if you are looking for a page turner at the beach, airplane etc...
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