The disasters weren't random. They were engineered.
Cal Walker stood in front of Jake's snowplow with his arms spread. "Don't do this." Jake edged around him. They'd shared beers at the Mountain View Tavern. They'd hauled each other out of bad situations more times than either could count. But Jake had a job, and the commissioner had given the order: the pass stays open.
Cal watched his friend's plow disappear around the bend. Twenty minutes later, the avalanche buried the road. That's only half the crisis. In Devil's Bowl, five teenagers are trapped by a wildfire that started in three places simultaneously. That's not lightning. That's not carelessness. That's intent.
Cal rappels down a cliff face to a concealed cave. Inside: camping gear, provisions, and a metal box of annotated topographic maps. Fuel loads. Wind corridors. Ignition points. Seasonal burn patterns. Months of systematic analysis, all focused on Black Mountain. Someone has been living on this mountain, studying its weaknesses, and setting fires with surgical precision.
THE PASS is the tenth book in the Black Mountain Series — where Cal Walker stops chasing disasters and starts hunting the person behind them.
Genre: Mystery
Cal Walker stood in front of Jake's snowplow with his arms spread. "Don't do this." Jake edged around him. They'd shared beers at the Mountain View Tavern. They'd hauled each other out of bad situations more times than either could count. But Jake had a job, and the commissioner had given the order: the pass stays open.
Cal watched his friend's plow disappear around the bend. Twenty minutes later, the avalanche buried the road. That's only half the crisis. In Devil's Bowl, five teenagers are trapped by a wildfire that started in three places simultaneously. That's not lightning. That's not carelessness. That's intent.
Cal rappels down a cliff face to a concealed cave. Inside: camping gear, provisions, and a metal box of annotated topographic maps. Fuel loads. Wind corridors. Ignition points. Seasonal burn patterns. Months of systematic analysis, all focused on Black Mountain. Someone has been living on this mountain, studying its weaknesses, and setting fires with surgical precision.
THE PASS is the tenth book in the Black Mountain Series — where Cal Walker stops chasing disasters and starts hunting the person behind them.
Genre: Mystery