The Edge of Justice — Clinton McKinzie

Combining high-altitude climbing action with sizzling courtroom drama and raw tension, The Edge of Justice is a thriller like no other. Set amid the towering beauty of Wyoming and the gritty underbelly of crime, here is storytelling on a grand scale - a gut-wrenching debut novel that features one of recent fiction's most original and complex heroes: Special Agent Antonio Burns - climber, cop, brother, son, risk-taker.

Burns knows the hunger that drives climbers up the faces of mountains - it's a hunger that has shaped his life and pushed his brother, Roberto, onto the wrong side of the law.

A climber by nature, a cop by trade, Antonio has come to Laramie, Wyoming, to investigate a young woman's deadly plunge. But as he digs deeper into the case, Antonio is certain he has found a murder...and a stunning connection to the trial of two men about to be executed for a crime they did not commit.

But Antonio is running out of time. As two lives hang in the balance, another woman is killed, and Antonio believes the answers he seeks are hidden amid a dangerous group of climbers...and in the towering shadows of jagged peaks. Suddenly, Antonio knows he has only one option. With a beautiful reporter sharing his investigation, he must make a harrowing ascent: up a forbidding mountainside - to bring a killer down from the deadliest kind of high....