Lee Shelby steals five kilos of cocaine and $75,000 from Tom Tucker, a local drug dealer in Aspen, Colorado. He hoofs it out of town, across the state line into Wyoming and up to his grandfather's cabin on Baker's Peak. Along the way, Lee hitchhikes with a young couple who engage in a shootout with the law, killing one deputy and wounding another. Now Lee's a wanted man, not just by Tom Tucker, but also by Wyoming and Colorado police. Lee decides to return to Aspen to save the only thing he really cares about, Laura, his former girlfriend who got mixed up with Tom and is now doing cocaine. Can he work his way back to Laura and make all of the wrongs he's committed right again?
Jim Satterfield has penned a unique thriller, set in the late 1970s. This fast-paced story takes us across the prairie, into the mountains, through roadblocks and flying a single-prop airplane into a pasture full of cattle. Lee engages several people to help him return to Aspen and takes the journey of his life. Satterfield's characters are strong and unforgettable. He uses beautiful imagery to describe the land as Lee makes his way to and from Wyoming. It's a good thing this is a quick read, as the story is captivating and intense, and it's hard to find a good place to put it down. With a touch of romance to round out a well-written novel, SAVING LAURA is a must-read for lovers of a good adventure thriller. Add SAVING LAURA to your list.
Twenty-one-year-old Lee Shelby plunges into dangerous
terrain when blatantly β and very foolishly β he robs
Aspen, Coloradoβs most notorious cocaine dealer, fleeing
the scene with five kilos of Peruvian flake and $75,000.
Shelby escapes to the sagebrush hills of southwestern
Wyoming, hoping to disappear into the wilderness until
after the furor dies down. Then he plans to return and
wrest his old girlfriend, Laura, from the dealerβs
clutches. Shelbyβs half-baked scheme goes awry when a
chance encounter with a teenage Bonnie and Clyde puts him
in the middle of a shootout with two highway patrolmen,
intensifying his challenge to stay hidden off the grid.
Using his cache of survival skills, Shelby evades local and
state police and returns to Aspen only weeks after the
robbery. He finds Laura, herself on the run after a brutal
assault at the hands of her captor.
To make things worse, Shelby encounters an unscrupulous DEA
agent, willing to sacrifice Laura to make his case. At the
core of the chase and the unending physical challenges is
the love of a man for a woman. Pure, not simple, but
complicated.
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