Killer Summer (Walt Fleming) Hardcover - 2009

by Pearson, Ridley

Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in thishigh-intensity thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson.

Sun Valley, Idaho-playground of the wealthy andpolitically connected-is home to an annual wine auctionthat attracts high rollers from across the country,and Blaine County Sheriff Walt Fleming is the one who mustensure it goes off without a hitch. The world's most elite wineconnoisseurs have descended on Sun Valley to taste and bid onthe world's best wines, including three bottles claimed to havebeen a gift from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams. With sky-highprices all but guaranteed for these historic items, it's no wondera group of thieves is out to steal them. Walt is responsible for allaspects of the glitzy event, from security of the dignitaries to thephysical safety of the auction site to the transportation andsafeguard of the wines themselves.

Walt is enjoying a rare afternoon of freedom, fly-fishingwith his nephew, Kevin, when a passing truck catches his eye-his suspicions throwing him headlong into the discovery of acomplicated plan to steal the rare wine. When a bomb detonatesjust as the auction revs up, the investigation explodes as well,pulling Walt in a dozen different directions. It seems Walt iscaught in the middle of a heist of epic proportions-and not theheist he had prepared for-all orchestrated by the ingeniousmind of Christopher Cantell, a man who appears to have coveredeverything, including the way Walt's own sheriff's office willreact.