A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Adrenaline-junkie Jack Farrell tanks his promising investment banking career when he launders money for a notorious drug cartel. On the run from both the cartel and the FBI, Jack finds temporary refuge in the quiet of Utah’s mountains. With a new identity and surgically altered face, he may have narrowly escaped his old life.

But can he run from his own destructive nature?

Bored in the anonymous safety of his new reality, Jack quickly finds himself drawn to Inez Didier, a mysterious French director documenting the high-stakes lives of the world’s most daring skiers. As Inez pulls Jack further into her work, he struggles to keep his thrill-addicted temperament in check. But when the darkest secrets of his thorny past begin to surface, Jack’s life may once again wind up in freefall....

“Not many investigative reporters have the sensitivity and poetry that are exhibited in this exciting story of dare-devil skiing.” (The New York Times Book Review)