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Inkberry Books: November 13th at 7:00 PM

Author Mike King

Rocky Mountain Heist


In 1911 a half breed Native American robs a train unaided and gets away clean. He takes only one item from the baggage car, a small steel trunk. He is not sure exactly what is in it but believes it to be very valuable. Once in his possession he finds that it is. To avoid attracting attention he uses his hoard very sparingly. He lives a comfortable but low-profile life and dies suddenly of natural causes 24 years later without telling anyone about his stash.



In present times, while doing an environmental assessment on a property he wants to develop, a struggling small time real estate developer stumbles across what remains of the treasure. Despite intensive covert research he cannot determine exactly what he has found and exploiting the discovery presents several problems. It is likely stolen. It is so rare that its value could be almost incalculable or it could be a protracted legal battle and, either way, it resides on land he does not own. To make matters even more daunting the property owner is asking much more for the land than it's worth and has suspicions that there could be something very valuable hidden there. So how does the developer secure ownership, enjoy possibly untold wealth and avoid spending the rest of his life supporting lawyers?

About the Author



Mike lives in colorful Colorado under the shadow of Long's Peak (elevation 14,259 ft). After grad school and a stint in Viet Nam for the US Army, Mike's first career was in business. He worked for large corporations for a while. Then he succumbed to the mysterious urge to work 60 hours per week with no guarantees of any income, no paid holidays or sick days, no health insurance and no expense account, so he started up several small businesses.


His serial entrepreneurial scorecard was three wins, two losses and one tie. The tie was the most fun of them all. Writing fiction is almost as much fun but the pay sucks.