Into Thin Air — Thomas Zigal

IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN THE FIRST BLOOD HAS BEEN DRAWN....

His deputy wears Birkenstocks. His childhood friend got rich on drugs. And his hometown has become a playpen of money, power, and sex. But hippie-turned-sheriff Kurt Muller still believes--in the law, in the truth, and in a future for his young son in the breathtaking Colorado mountains.

A single father and Aspen native, Muller knew the Colorado town when folk singers used capos and miners still worked the shafts. Now a man is dead, his washed-out body found in the Roaring Fork with a bullet hole behind one ear. A woman is missing, her handbag still hidden under Kurt Muller's Jeep seat. And the violence that is erupting around Aspen-violence laced with kinky sex, international politics, and local power--is leading Muller to the darkest truths a man can confront: about his past, about his family, and about another murder in the high Rocky Mountain air....