Scott Free
A Thriller by the Author of EVEN STEVEN and NATHAN'S RUN
Chapter One
The Cessna danced all over the sky.
The pilot shouted to Scott over the engine noise, "Everything's gonna be just fine.
The storm's just a little heavier than I'd anticipated."
A little heavier. As in, the walls of the Grand Canyon are a little steep.
The pilot tried to put the best face on it. "Forget it. In ninety minutes, our ears'll be
bleeding from the music."
Scott shot him a look. "You told me ninety minutes a half hour ago."
The pilot tossed a tense shrug. "Like I said, the storm's worse than I thought."
Metallica was appearing at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, and the pilot - a ski
patroller named Cody Jamieson - had somehow scared up two tickets from a couple
of college kids who'd let the blizzard intimidate them. Nobody in their right minds
would risk getting stranded on the back roads of the Wasatch in weather like this.
For Cody, however, road conditions were irrelevant. He had his very own airplane -a
twenty-five-year-old high-wing job that he'd picked up for a song and maintained
himself in a litt ... read full excerpt from: Scott Free: A Novel ebook
