Deadly Reckoning

Butte may be the most unplastic place in America." ~Molly Ivins

"Butte was mercurial.... The wicked, wealthy, full blooded little city welcomed me with wild enthusiasm of the most disorderly kind."
~Theodore Roosevelt

In the town that produced Evel Knievel, a plane that attempts to land on a city street is not a surprise, unless the pilot disappears and leaves a dead man in his place. When a Cessna 180 crashes into a miner’s cottage in historic uptown Butte, two men flee the plane leaving behind a third who isn’t talking. He’s dead. Did the victim, a high profile ex-con, deserve this fate? Just how did he die? Chance Dawson and his sister, Mesa, who edits the weekly paper pursue a bittersweet story that takes them from Montana to Idaho and Utah where western individualism and retribution collide to reveal a killer.