Aspen Drift

What do you do when your best friend dies in a fire and the ex-wife you're still half in love with is certain it was murder? What do you do when another friend tells you there's a conspiracy to murder him and then almost dies in an unexplained accident?

If you're Jack Jackson, reporter for The Aspen Sun, you chase both mysteries through the labyrinth of Aspen society: from the billionaires with their mansions and private jets, to the ruthless developers, to the hard-partying ski bums, bartenders, waiters and waitresses.

And, when one of the mysteries reaches back to events a century old, you get help from a family that traces its Aspen roots back to the town's mining days and especially from the beautiful great grand-daughter of the family's matriarch.

Aspen Drift follows Jackson as he pursues the stories, while still finding time to ski, chase (and occasionally catch) beautiful women in Aspen's bars and even cover the local news.

But before he's done, he wrestles with the impossibility of really knowing the truth of even simple events and faces the profound difference between news stories and life itself.