A New York Times Notable Book of 1994

A man addicted to the adrenaline rush of danger, Jack Farrell has stumbled into a deal too good to be true. Rising swiftly from a low-level loan officer in Chicago to a successful investment banker in California representing the global interests of a high-profile Central American entrepreneur, Farrell blinds himself to what he is really doing -- laundering money for a drug cartel -- until it is too late.

On the run from both Federal agents and the drug lords, Jack flees to the Utah mountains where he once skied as a student. With a new name and a face altered by plastic surgery, Farrell struggles to lose himself in the steep chutes and couloirs of Alta's rugged ski terrain.

But his solitude is short-lived. Farrell is drawn to Inez Didier, the enigmatic French director who recruits him and a handful of fellow skiers for a documentary film that forces them to take mind-numbing risks.

Treading the hazardous line between his on-going addiction to thrill-seeking and his need to confront the horrors of his past, THE FALL LINE reveals its darkest secrets as it races toward an explosive climax in the treacherous heights of the Grand Tetons.