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Title: Saving Laura

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Jim Satterfield

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Huge money - huge drug heist...revenge will be brutal.

Twenty-one-year-old Lee Shelby plunges into dangerous terrain when blatantly - and foolishly - he robs Aspen, Colorados most notorious cocaine dealer, fleeing the scene with five kilos of Peruvian flake and $75,000. Shelby escapes to the sagebrush hills of southwestern Wyoming, hoping to disappear into the wilderness until after the furor dies down. Then he plans to return and wrest his old girlfriend, Laura, from the dealers clutches. Shelbys half-baked scheme goes awry when a chance encounter with a teenage Bonnie and Clyde puts him in the middle of a shootout with two highway patrolmen, intensifying his challenge to stay hidden off the grid.

Using his cache of survival skills, Shelby evades local and state police and returns to Aspen only weeks after the robbery. He finds Laura, herself on the run after a brutal assault at the hands of her captor.

To make things worse, Shelby encounters an unscrupulous DEA agent, willing to sacrifice Laura to make his case. At the core of the chase and the unending physical challenges is the love of a man for a woman: pure, not simple, but complicated.

Members Reviews:

Looking for a great summer read?

If you are, like me, on the lookout for a fresh voice in the thriller genre, clear out your schedule for a few days and pick up a copy of Jim Satterfield's Saving Laura. Set in Wyoming and Colorado--a region Satterfield knows like his backyard--Saving Laura is the tale of a young man willing to risk everything to save the girl he loves from an unscrupulous drug dealer. It is a common theme, yes, but Satterfield does it with uncommon style: in the smooth and easy prose that flows like the waters of the Roaring Fork River, in the characters as real as the Rockies themselves, and in the use of the setting--described beautifully--as a character unto itself. So well does Satterfield know the terrain and understand its denizens, that the reader is much like a movie-goer, watching the story unfold amid the snow-tinged peaks and aspen-covered hills.

But there is more to Saving Laura than beautiful scenery, much more. In classic thriller fashion, there is never really any doubt as to how the story will end, but it is the getting there that drives the story, the reader's desire to see how it all goes down. It is a testament to Satterfield's ability to create sympathetic characters that we yearn to see the protagonist (twenty-one-year-old Lee Shelby) succeed despite watching him commit grand larceny in the opening scene. We allow it because we understand Shelby is desperate to save Laura from cocaine addiction and from the man who enabled her addiction, an easy-to-hate drug peddler that Satterfield draws up in grand fashion.

But the author's talent for characterization is perhaps best seen in the many supporting characters: in the renegade mountain dweller who helps Shelby escape from the police who are looking for him for a murder he didn't commit; in the beautiful and flawed Laura for whom Shelby is willing to risk his life; and in the maverick author (a doppleganger of Satterfield himself?) who comes to Shelby's aid when he needs it most.

So, pull up a beach chair, brew up a large pitcher of iced tea or mix a Tanqueray and Tonic (don't forget the lime so you can count it as a fruit serving), and crack open a copy of Saving Laura by Jim Satterfield.