Slippery Slope

A superb adventure thriller about an audacious hijacking which spirals into a tense and electrifying race for money and for blood.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.