THE FIRST BLOOD HAS BEEN DRAWN....
His deputy wears
Birkenstocks. His
childhood friend got rich on drugs. And his hometown
has become a playpen of money, power, and sex. But
hippie-turned-sheriff Kurt Muller still believes -- in the law, in the
truth, and in a future for his young son in the breathtaking Colorado
mountains.A single father and Aspen native, Muller knew the Colorado town when folk singers used capos and miners still worked the shafts. Now a man is dead, his washed-out body found in the Roaring Fork with a bullet hole behind one ear. A woman is missing, her handbag still hidden under Kurt Muller's Jeep seat. And the violence that is erupting around Aspen -- violence laced with kinky sex, international politics, and local power -- is leading Muller to the darkest truths a man can confront: about his family, and about another murder in the high Rocky Mountain air ...
Praise for Thomas Zigal's "INTO THIN AIR":
"Like the Roaring Fork River that runs through Aspen, the action-packed plot twists and turns then plunges through a rocky, icy canyon, but never slows down. But the book takes time to examine brotherly love, love beyond divorce, and the finely wrought relationship between Sheriff Muller and his son. THIS IS ONE FINE NOVEL. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE IN THE SERIES." "Thomas Zigal's is a terrifically strong and wonderfully humane new voice in crime fiction."
- James Crumley
"ZIGAL HAS WRITTEN AN OUTSTANDING FIRST NOVEL: he introduces a textured, fully developed detective, places him in a rich environment ripe with with functional possibilities, and surrounds him with a terrific supporting cast."
- Booklist
"SHERIFF KURT MULLER IS A RARE CREATION: a cop who feels. He loves his son, hurts for his busted up marriage, yet navigates the murderous peaks and valleys of AAspen society like a crime-solving Tommy Moe. I loved the well-worn ex-hippie characters that populate this book, as well as Zigal's particularly skewed black humor."
- April Smith, author of North of Montana
"THE BEST RECENT READ OF A BOOK ABOUT OR SET IN ASPEN THIS YEAR."
- Aspen Magazine
"This taut mystery. . . offers everything a reader could want - an offbeat, likeable hero; and intriguing locale, rendered with humor and a fine sense of nuance; supple, polished writing; and a crackling plot."
- Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent and Pleading Guilty
"THOMAS ZIGAL'S INTO THIN AIR IS A WONDERFUL MIX OF THINGS: a sleekly paced mystery, a wicked and knowing portrait of Aspen society, and a beautifully written story of a man trying to put his life back together. Zigal can be funny and he can be tender, but he also knows how to turn up the narrative heat. This is a series with a real chance to take flight!"
-James Magnuson, author of Ghost Dancing
"FAST-PACED . . . KEEP[S] THE PAGES TURNING . . . Thomas Zigal has done a fine turn in telling a gripping multiple-murder story . . . The mystery of the murders takes the novel to a high level of Intrigue."
-The Aspen Times (COLO.)
"Somewhere between Jim Thompson's sordid Midwest and Raymond Chandler's decaying Los Angeles lies Thomas Zigal's Aspen . . . If the genre is about tough, sensitive good guys going up against venal, insensitive bad guys, Into Thin Air is a prime example."
-Marion Winik, NPR essayist and author of First Comes Love
"Wrestling with his demons and the equally elusive bad guys amid some spectacular scenery, the immensely likable sheriff is just the sort most of us would want to see on the job - and in more adventures like this one."
- People
"INTO THIN AIR IS A SUPERIOR CRIME NOVEL whose suspense radiates from matters of reasl significance, and whose characters act from motives which are credible and bone-deep. Thomas Zigal conjures up his locale - the glitz-and-Goretex environment of Aspen - with wickedly wry precision, but also - and more important - with a feeling heart."
- Stephen Harrigan, author of Comanche Midnight
"A PROMISING DEBUT . . . Plot aside, what makes Into Thin Air such a pleasure is its setting. Zigal nails Aspen with the authority of a native."
- The New Orleans Times-Picayune
"If Graham Greene had ever cast his keen eye upon the morally skewed hothouse world of Aspen, Colorado, the novel he would have written is Into Thin Air."
-Sarah Bird, author of The Mommy Club
"Engaging and often darkly funny ... [with] a cataclysmic climax that is both wrenching and credible."
-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
All information on this page was borrowed from my own copy of INTO THIN AIR
published by Dell Publishing, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc
INTO THIN AIR
Copyright 1995 by Thomas Zigal
ISBN: 0-440-22251-6
Website maintained by Mike Morris