And unlike an action movie hero, he feels the bruises and dings he get while investigating-but he doesn't let them stop him. Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a. His fierce protectiveness balances out his willingness to sometimes look the other way for the small sins. Muller, raising his son on his own, with an absentee mother, is a likable character. And someone blames Muller for the FBI shoot-out, so he has multiple people gunning for him-the FBI, the bereaved, and the real killers.Ĭan he untangle the politics behind these deaths before someone silences him for good? The problem is the FBI is involved, too, and they think it would be pretty convenient of Muller was involved in the local drug trade, and that they've caught-or killed-the rest of the bad guys. Books shelved as into-thin-air: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer, Papillon by Henri Charrière, High Crimes. But when another member of that group, a woman, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Sheriff Muller is pretty sure there's more going on that he was told. The man was part of a group with lofty goals, if the rest of them can be believed. When Sheriff Kurt Muller has to deal with the dead body fished out of the river in Aspen, the bullet hole behind the corpse's ear makes it clear this was foul play. Meanwhile, I recommend Craig Johnson's Sheriff Walt Longmire series instead as the gold standard is this old-fashioned-lawman-in-the-modern-West subgenre. This is s first novel, and one hopes the next will present a simpler plot with the same colorful cast. Good characters but perhaps a too violent and over-complicated a plot, or maybe, not being a skier, I just couldn't warm up to the Aspen “culture.” A fictional ski resort might have suited the stories better. His friends are loyal, and the victim’s wife turns out to be a beautiful Argentine who easily sets his mind in pleasanter directions, at least temporarily. On the plus side, although Muller’s ex-wife is a mental case, his young son is the light of his life. He begins to wonder if he can really handle the job. When a body is found in a creek, his investigation finds drug traffickers, international terrorists, and local power struggles-not to mention clashes with an obnoxious FBI agent. Sheriff Kurt Muller carries around a lot of emotional baggage, and trying to keep the peace in Aspen, Colorado (his home town), only adds to his woes.
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