High Crimes

People die every year on Mount Everest. This year is going to be murder.Living in the bleak majesty of Kathmandu, Zan Jensen is an Americanexpatriate on the run from a scandalous past. Working for a fly-by-nightadventure consulting service, Zan escorts tourists and thrill-seekers upthe Himalayas' tallest and deadliest peaks. Along with Haskell Price,fellow climbing guide and mentor, the two partner up in a more sinisterline of work: high-altitude grave robbing. Stripping the bodies they findleft at deadly altitudes of personal effects and right hands, Zan andHaskell shake down the families and friends of the dead for a hefty bodyreturn fee. When Price stumbles across the decades-old corpse of SullivanMars below the peak of Mount Everest, it puts the partners in thecrosshairs of a global mystery that someone is all too willing to kill tokeep secret.