Audio Book Description:
Eight years ago, in Sun Valley-Snowcapped playground for the wealthy andambitious-all that stood between New York State attorneygeneral Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Liz Shaler returnsto Sun Valley as the crownjewel and keynote speaker for billionaire Patrick Cutter`s world-famous C3, a media and communications conference wherethe richest, most powerful business tycoons converge. The attorney general, a political lightning rod, is expected to announce her candidacyfor president. It`s a media coup for Cutter-but a security nightmare for Walt Fleming, now the county sheriff. As C3 gets under way, authorities learnof a confirmed threat on Shaler`s life, and various competing interests-the Secret Service,the FBI, Cutter`s own security forces-begin jockeying forjurisdiction. Beyond the logistical nightmare that the conference`s opulent extravagances represent for Sheriff Fleming, he must also contend with araft of other local concerns: his troubled nephew`s arrest, his wife`s infidelity, thedeath of a socialite, under suspicious circumstances, and aseries of apparent maulings by an aggressive cougar. Eachof these incidents comesto head just as Shaler`sassassin puts his chillingly preciseplan into action.
