The New York Times bestseller returns with a completely new setting-the magnificent natural beauty of Sun Valley Idaho-and a heart-stopping story in which a local sheriff struggles to protect a controversial politician from the elegant plan of a hired assassin Eight years ago in Sun Valley-snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious-all that stood between US Attorney General Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming Now Liz Shaler returns to Sun Valley as the keynote speaker of billionaire Patrick Cutters world-famous media and communications conference a convergence of the richest most powerful business tycoons The controversial attorney general is expected to announce her candidacy for president Its a media coup for Cutter-but a security nightmare for Walt Fleming now the county sheriff As the Cutter conference gets under way authorities learn of a confirmed threat on Shalers life and various competing interests-the Secret Service the FBI Cutters own security forces -begin jockeying for jurisdiction Amid the conferences opulent extravagances Walt is suddenly shaken by an apparent murder his nephews arrest and a haunting legacy from his familys past The clock ticks down toward Shalers keynote address as we track the chilling precision of her assassins preparations.
