New York: Doubleday, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel, a thriller set in an isolated Montana mountaintop. "When a local sheriff is mistakenly ordered to serve an eviction notice to town recluse Glenn Ables, a routine Monday morning turns into an unimaginable catastrophe. Ables, a notorious federal fugitive wanted for illegal firearms trafficking, responds to the notice by shooting two policemen and barricading his family inside his cabin atop Paradise Ridge." 306 pp. ISBN: 0-385477163.