Stealing Gold

"With sharply drawn characters and a plot as twisty and dangerous as a Super-G race on an icy course, Balkind's Stealing Gold gives new meaning to the term a slippery slope."Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times Bestselling author of Where It HurtsU.S. Ski Team racer, Peter Buckar, is America's best hope for bringing home the gold in multiple races in the upcoming Olympics. Weeks prior to the Games, Peter has a devastating crash on an icy Downhill race course in Chamonix, France. Unconscious, he is medevacked to the hospital. Days later, still comatose, Peter is snatched from his hospital bed. Is it for ransom? Is it a competing country trying to eliminate their biggest competition? Or are the reasons more nefarious? The list of suspects grows rapidly as Reid Clark's Chief of Security, along with European law enforcement combine efforts to work together to find Peter before it's too late.