Stuart Stark, a prosecutor in the Massachusetts DA's
office, is ambitious, honest, graduated at the top of his
class at Harvard Law, and he has just won a high-profile
murder case. Marti Butz was murdered by her husband
Raymond Butz. During the five times he was questioned, he
was not given his Miranda rights. The sixth time he lawyer-
ed up but in jail he confessed the horrific murder with
grisly details to his cell mate, which included strangling
her and then taking her on a boat and chopping up her body
with a saw and tossing her remains and the saw in the water
never to be found. Stuart Stark convicted him at the
highest profile trial in New Bedford history. Stark's
reputation was soaring when the case was overturned by the
Court of Appeals due to "unfortunate circumstances, a quirk
in the law and dictated by precedent", Butz walked out a
free man. And though all his fellow attorneys in his office
warned him "no body, no case", Stuart Stark lost his case
and his job in the same week.
His ambitious and classy wife, Katherine, has her hopes set
on the outcome of the Molson Case, a personal injury case,
that she hopes will give them the bigger home on the beach,
a second apartment or condo in Boston or Manhattan and a
luxurious lifestyle. It's what she has been planning for
since their marriage. Social status to Katherine is
everything and she will do anything to obtain it.
Clay Buchanan and Stuart Stark met at the University of
Oregon. Fighting Ducks.Though not friends, they had one
class together in Civil Procedure II. Stark was ambitious,
did things by the book, while Buchanan was lazy, cheated on
exams and chased the girls. Now partners in their law
firm, Buchanan, Stark and Associates, Clay brings in the
clients using very unorthodox methods and Stark does all the
work.
At a birthday party given by Katherine to celebrate his
40th, Clay stepped up on their coffee table and announces
his special gift to Stuart. A week vacation in the Alaskan
wilderness to discover his manhood and Clay would join him
there in a cabin owned by one of their wealthy clients.
When Clay backs out at the airport, Stuart begins his
adventure alone. There is no cabin, food or
transportation. He is abandoned, alone and not an outdoors
man. After a week, near death, he is saved by passing
trapper, Blake. Together they find shelter as winter sets
in. Snowed in Stuart has time to re-examine his life. Who
is behind this sabotage? Why? It is time to go back. Time
for revenge. Time for pay back. Time for a sequel?
IMPASSE is a thriller. A story of survival and the
satisfaction of revenge, sweet revenge. Royce Scott
Buckingham writes a non-stop action driven plot that made
me a temporary nail biter and instant fan. I look forward
to reading his next as he makes me feel like I am there in
the midst of a thrilling adventure. Great job, Mr.
Buckingham!
In Royce Scott Buckingham's Impasse, a man is left to die in
Alaska while on an “adventure vacation” and must somehow
survive to get his revenge on those who betrayed him.
Forty and facing a mid-life crisis, Stu Stark has lost his
mojo. He simply gave up after being fired from his
prestigious job as a prosecuting attorney for losing the
biggest case of his career. So when Stu’s best friend gifts
him a one-week trip into the Alaskan wilderness to
rediscover his manhood, Stu thinks it just might do him some
good. But after a horrible week, Stu is crushed when he
realizes that no one is coming back for him. Dying, Stu is
found by a grizzled old hunter who informs that winter has
set in, and they’re not going anywhere for a while.
So begins Stu’s training to become the man he never was…and
to get revenge on those who betrayed him. This adult debut
by the internationally bestselling YA author is a modern day
take on The Count of Monte Cristo.
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