While meeting up with one of her groups in the Flat Tops
Wilderness Area of Colorado, hunting guide Allison Coil
discovers the partial remains of a human body not far from
camp. There are animal signs around what is left of the
corpse, but did a wild animal cause the death? Allison
fears not, but relies on the authorities for confirmation.
While searching for more clues in the wilderness, she comes
upon a remote campsite with some unusual hunters and their
dogs. Allison is more than uneasy about the situation and
decides to pursue the matter further.
Meanwhile, miles away at a lower elevation, a U.S. Senate
candidate with some very controversial viewpoints is
campaigning in Glenwood Springs when a sniper opens fire.
When the man is shot, local newspaper reporter Duncan Bloom
is close enough to be dodging bullets. Envisioning the
story of a lifetime, Duncan is compelled to explore the
circumstances that caused the shooting.
Allison and Duncan soon find their separate investigations
intertwined as they expose a dark and deadly conspiracy,
which has incomprehensible repercussions for their
community -- and the state of Colorado.
TRAPLINE, the third Allison Coil thriller by Mark
Stevens, is a powerful novel with brilliant imagery of
Colorado's high country and its realistic inhabitants. The
suspenseful, ingenious plot will keep readers engaged
throughout until the riveting conclusion.
A badly chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness
Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified
and wary. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim
of a mountain lion attack, but Allison's wilderness-savvy
bones scream otherwise.
A few miles away and a few thousand feet lower in downtown
Glenwood Springs, a controversial candidate for U.S. Senate
is shot during a campaign stop as newspaper reporter Duncan
Bloom watches from a few feet away, dodging the long-range
gunfire.
TRAPLINE follows Coil and Bloom as their investigations
into the corpse and the shooting expose greed, hatred and
the dark depths of human indifference.
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