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Published: Aug. 25, 2011
Words: 56339 (approximate)
Language: English
Short description
A superb adventure thriller about an audacious hijacking which spirals into a tense and electrifying race for money and for blood.Extended description
A superb adventure thriller about an audacious hijacking which spirals into a tense and electrifying race for money and for blood.When Martin Gould, and ex-con and Craig Boyden, a professor of Romantic poetry, come down from a climbing expedition in northern Maine, they bring with them a plan for the perfect crime- a ruthless and lucrative hijacking . For Martin, the ransom will bring freedom from a go-nowhere job. For Craig it will mean the end of giving lectures to bored students. And it works.... After Martin’s girl phones Consolidated Airlines threatening to trigger a bomb on a crowded Los Angeles flight, the airline does just as it’s told. A light plane drops the money in the heart of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains and the pair hide the loot until the heat is off.
But can a fortune, even in the vastness of the Sawtooth range, lie quiet for a year? Not when the police and the FBI get close and greed cannot be repressed.
Tags
thriller, crime, adventure, death, colorado, washington, climbing, idaho, chase, canoe, hijack, wild riverAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Brian Borgford
on Dec. 25, 2011 :
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I found it captured my attention from the first page. Although I agree with the other reviewers about some of the downsides, I found those issues not to be a distraction from enjoying the story. I tend to be weak on writing descriptively, so I found the overuse of description useful as I read the scenes. I'm not a climber or a hiker, so I couldn't identify with some of those issues, but the descriptions made me feel that they were accurate portrails of these activities. I recommend the book for light reading - I read it on the beach in Thailand.
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Review by:
Nora Lee
on Sep. 02, 2011 :
The plot of Slippery Slope is good and the story could be superb; but it falls far short of its potential. Excessive flowery prose and adjectives slow the action down and cause the reading to become tedious. Craig, the primary character spends page after page in self incrimination. His state of mind swings wildly and he can't decide if he wants to be a crook, a professor or a beach bum. After enduring about 80% of the story I began to scan the pages in an effort to finish. Editing is fair to good for the length; there are misspelled words etc. but less than in most of the Indie books I've read. The last portion where the chase is on the river, and especially when Craig crawls out of the water, was extremely over written and tedious.
The story isn't terrible and if you like extremely detailed, flowery descriptions you may like it more than I did; and that's a shame because it truly has potential.
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Review by:
Aaron Majewski
on Sep. 01, 2011 :
Slippery-Slope has apparently been published by Putnam (according to the author, under the title Running)
I can only assume the author has chosen to use an earlier, unedited version of his novel here on smashwords, as it was full of typos... spelling mistakes, punctuation errors, ect.
Other than that, the novel is the story of one man's internal struggle to accept the truth of himself, and to live with it. Unfortunately it doesn’t spend nearly enough time developing either the primary, or secondary characters, so although it has the seeds of something that could be a really great novel, I find that it falls a bit short of that.
The author does have a great literary flair for dramatic and descriptive prose, and he clearly has spent time in the woods; for that alone it is worth reading. But it could use some editing, better formatting for ebook reading, and the author might want to consider rewriting it; or perhaps going back and making sure that what he has published here on smashwords is actually the same finished work, which was published by Putnam.
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