Walt Fleming #1
Putnam
July 2007
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Featuring: Elizabeth Shaler; Walt Fleming
336 pages ISBN: 0399154078 EAN: 9780399154072 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Eight years ago, in Sun Valley-snowcapped playground for
the wealthy and ambitious-all that stood between U.S.
Attorney General Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding
killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Liz Shaler
returns to Sun Valley as the keynote speaker of billionaire
Patrick Cutter's world-famous media and communications
conference, a convergence of the richest, most powerful
business tycoons. The controversial attorney general is
expected to announce her candidacy for president. It's a
media coup for Cutter-but a security nightmare for Walt
Fleming, now the county sheriff.
As the Cutter conference gets under way, authorities learn
of a confirmed threat on Shaler's life, and various
competing interests-the Secret Service, the FBI, Cutter's
own security forces -begin jockeying for jurisdiction. Amid
the conference's opulent extravagances, Walt is suddenly
shaken by an apparent murder, his nephew's arrest, and a
haunting legacy from his family's past. The clock ticks
down toward Shaler's keynote address as we track the
chilling precision of her assassin's preparations.