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Under Tower Peak: A Tommy Smith High Country Noir, Book One by Bart Paul is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Under Tower Peak: A Tommy Smith High Country Noir, Book One about?
This tautly written debut thriller was named one of the 10 Best Mysteries of 2013 by the Wall Street Journal . After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returned to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California's Sierra Nevada, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of his youth and heal the wounds the world can't see. When, high on a mountain pass, he and his partner find the wrecked plane of a billionaire adventurer who disappeared months earlier, a seemingly innocent act triggers a breathtaking cycle of violence that threatens Tommy's world. Soon he is enmeshed in the struggle between the billionaire's trophy wife and wannabe drug lord son and their allies. Every effort to set things right draws him deeper into a bad situation and closer to needing those deadly skills that he had hoped to leave behind forever. With lean, efficient prose and dialogue that crackles with repartee, Bart Paul has written a contemporary thriller of steadily mounting suspense and ruthless action. He captures both the beauty of the high mountain wilderness and the laconic rhythms of the outfitters' lives. In Tommy Smith he offers a protagonist whose cool competence, home-grown dece
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- Author
- Bart Paul
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781628724349
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (393 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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