Point of Law

Zusatztext "Guaranteed to set readers’ hearts racing and establish McKinzie as a rising voice in the genre." - -Publisher's Weekly “Clinton McKinzie is a talent to watch.” --Robert K. Tanenbaum “McKinzie writes with the voice of a true adventurer.” --Tess Gerritsen Informationen zum Autor Clinton Mckinzie is the acclaimed author of The Edge of Justice and Point of Law . He was raised in Santa Monica, California, and he now lives in Colorado with his wife, son, and dog. Prior to becoming a writer, he worked as a peace officer and deputy district attorney in Denver. His passion is climbing alpine walls. Klappentext Special Agent Antonio Burns has come to Colorado for a family reunion of sorts. He and his father plan to confront Antonio's brother, Roberto, whose life is teetering on the wrong side of the law. For thirty years a father and his sons have shared an addiction to dangerous, extreme climbing in the world's most beautiful places. This just might be their last dance together. On their first night in the valley, violence has erupted around the Burns men, as a bitter dispute between local activists and developers leaves a young man dead. When Roberto stands accused, Antonio knows he must find the real killer to clear his brother's name. Now, with a beautiful renegade environmentalist by his side, Antonio embarks on a perilous journey through the jagged peaks--where he will come face-to-face with a woman's secrets, a man's evil, and an amazing undiscovered treasure deep within a hidden labyrinth of caves. One Watch me. Keep it tight." My father's calm voice belies his precarious position. He clings to the vertical granite forty feet above where I sway in my harness, another one hundred and fifty feet above the canyon floor. Although my vision is slightly blurred by the waves of early-morning heat the sun is generating off the cliffs face, I can see where his right hand grips a tiny edge barely thicker than a pencil. His left hand sorts through the rack of protective gear slung around one burly shoulder. The toes of the old man's climbing slippers are splayed on nubbins of quartz that look as if they could pop off the sandstone wall at any moment. But there's no quiver in his muscles, no panic in his voice. I glance at the last piece of protection my father had clipped to the rope twenty feet beneath him and feel a familiar admiration swelling in my chest. "You say you want slack?" I shout up, pretending to have misunderstood. My hands shuffle over the belay device--a slotted piece of cold-forged steel appropriately called an Air Traffic Controller--and take in the few inches of loose rope between us. My father drops down a hard look before he returns to the task of finding a cam to fit in the narrow crack above his head. From that look I guess he isn't in a humorous mood. My mother had warned me about this: in recent months his tolerance for frivolity has suffered a dramatic decline. Resolving to remain silent and simply focus on my job, I study the forty feet of vertical space between us. The rock is a combination of sandstone, gneiss, and pinkish pegmatite. Its texture is sometimes smooth and sometimes coarse under my fingertips. The entire five-hundred-foot canyon wall overhangs slightly from where it's been carved out of ancient bedrock by thousands of years of rushing water and tumbling boulders. The distance between my father and me appears almost featureless but for where a single recess mars the wall--a short and flaring horizontal fissure, the only opportunity for him to have placed some gear to protect against a fall. Above his head begins the comfort of the deep vertical crack into which he's working the spring-loaded camming device. According to my father's tattered guidebook that describes the route, called "Big Balls and a Puckered Ass" (the route's name could ju...

Product details

• Authors: Clinton McKinzie
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.04.2003
• EAN: 9780440240808
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24080-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 174 mm x 30 mm