When thirty-five-year-old litigator Hunter Lee decides to turn his back on the rat race that has made him rich but cost him his marriage, he takes the advice of his brother and goes to Montana. There he joins the elite Smoke Jumpers, marines of the firefighting world, who parachute out of C-5 airplanes to contain the worst forest fires of the remote west. But escape from the ugly side of human nature is hardly what he finds when word reaches him of a small town's little secret involving arson and the reckless quest for profits at the expense of lives.
If the listener can ignore the improbable plot and concentrate on the many action scenes so well delivered by Erik Steele, this latest from Stephen Frey can be truly enjoyable. A 35-year-old lawyer who regularly wins multimillion dollar verdicts against big-time corporations gives it all up to become a fire jumper in Montana. Soon he becomes involved in a mystery of apparent arson for profit. Eric Steele is his element with his credible delivery of courtroom scenes and is totally exciting as he describes the jumpers' battles with raging Montana fires. As the sinister plot depicts what's really going on in this innocent backwoods community, Steele deserves kudos for his ability to deftly shift from scene to scene. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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