Scott Free. (edition 2004)

by John Gilstrap

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Title:	Scott Free.
Authors:	John Gilstrap
Info:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) (2004), Paperback
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Regardless of your sex or age this is a must. It was well written and presented a well thought thru perspective of mother, father, teen age son, and others. Enough suspense, violence (natural and man made) to capture your attention. (

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gerigraves | Dec 5, 2011 |

I love books that have anything to do with man versus nature, survival stories. Therefore it was not surprise that I really enjoyed Scott Free by John Gilstrap. The story revolves around Scott, a sixteen year old boy who survives the crash of a small plane in the wilderness. It is winter, during a storm in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah.

So I settled down to enjoy the story of the boy who build himself a shelter in the freezing cold, fought off wolves and eventually realized that the search planes were too far away to find him and then he would have to try and walk out of the wilderness if he wanted to survive.

But this story is more than just a survival story. It turned into a genuine thriller with the introduction of side stories involving the President of the USA, hired killers and murder. Tension builds as Scott finds a cabin but falls into the hands of a man that we are not sure is a good guy or a bad one.

Good story, interesting characters, excellent suspense building, for me this was a book that fired on all cylinders and I enjoyed it immensely. (

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DeltaQueen50 | Dec 5, 2010 |

helicopter crashed skier, hired killer, self-help mom

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When a plane carrying Scott O'Toole to a rock concert in Salt Lake City crashes in the Utah mountains, the resourceful teenager manages to make it to what looks like safety--a cabin owned by a mysterious, heavily armed man who may be the protected government witness he says he is--or a killer whose presence in the area has more to do with a planned political assassination. Meanwhile, Scott's divorced parents are dealing with his predicament very differently. Sherry O'Toole, a bestselling self-help author, seems more concerned about her public image and refighting her acrimonious divorce than using her celebrity to focus attention on her missing son, while Brandon O'Toole, who won custody of the boy, is desperately trying to convince the authorities that Scott, who is trained in survival, should not be given up for dead. This is a thrilling, chilling mystery from a writer whose abilities to create believable, authentic teenage characters have marked his other novels, notably Nathan's Run. But Sherry is little more than a cartoon figure, whose ambivalence in the face of her son's catastrophe is unbelievable, and Brandon, while a much more sympathetic figure, is hardly more real. Despite these flaws, Scott Free is a compelling read, with excellent pacing and a narrative that drives to a thunderous conclusion. --Jane Adams

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"Sherry Carrigan O'Toole can't seem to apply the prescriptions she offers in her bestselling self-help books to her own life. Six years after her marriage to Brandon disintegrated and he won custody of their son, Scott, there's no room in their lives for her. Hoping to win back the teenager's heart, Sherry arranges a week's skiing at the plush SkyTop Village resort." "But Scott has other plans. Determined to evade his mother's clutches, he jumps at the chance to join a foolhardy adventure: flying a Cessna through a nighttime storm to Salt Lake City for a Metallica concert. After the plane crashes, Scott is lost and alone in the frozen wilderness, miles from anywhere anyone would search for him." "As Brandon and Sherry revisit the old battles that tore them apart, they have to fight a bureaucracy that wants to abandon the search even as their son struggles to survive impossible odds." "Barely alive, Scott finally finds a cabin for shelter. He thinks his troubles are over. When he discovers the truth about the man who lives there, however, it's clear that his terror has hardly begun."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)

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