"Walking to Denver" follows the arduous, but scenic path of six adults who walk from Los Angeles to Denver as part of a publicity campaign for the Zeus sporting goods company. The main character is Roger McAllister, an accountant from Buffalo who lost his wife in a plane crash. He is a staid, level-headed anti-hero whose conversative observations become more circumspect as provocative relationships develop with a sexy model, a journalist, a god-like triathlete, an amoral real estate agent and an old girlfriend from college.

The easy-to-follow, humorous plot is strictly about who's going to end up with who. Spicy love scenes are minimal and profanity is refreshingly nonexistent. If anything, the book makes you want to set out on a long, cross-country trek of your own.

"Walking to Denver" follows the arduous, but scenic path of six adults who walk from Los Angeles to Denver as part of a publicity campaign for the Zeus sporting goods company. The main character is Roger McAllister, an accountant from Buffalo who lost his wife in a plane crash. He is a staid, level-headed anti-hero whose conversative observations become more circumspect as provocative relationships develop with a sexy model, a journalist, a god-like triathlete, an amoral real estate agent and an old girlfriend from college.

The easy-to-follow, humorous plot is strictly about who's going to end up with who. Spicy love scenes are minimal and profanity is refreshingly nonexistent. If anything, the book makes you want to set out on a long, cross-country trek of your own.

Mr. Sizemore's concise treatment of Christian doctrine, throughout his first two books, is nicely complimented by this youth edition. Its presentation of some of the essential elements of the Gospel is on a level very easily understood by younger Christians. The book's lesson format with questions at the end of the chapters provide an excellent way to retain the information. An excellent adaptation of the original work.

Being a Masters student of History in Denver, Rose's work is recommended reading. Unless the processes and politics of technology and industrialization turn you on, the first two and final two chapters will be slow going. But in the middle three chapters Rose hits his stride describing how the utility companies placed appliances and power tools into turn-of-the-century "home ec" and "shop" classes to get an entire generation hooked for later consumption. He also details how the marketers focused pressure on husbands to buy these "labor-saving" devices for their overworked wives. Even if you are not into the techno-politico history, those middle three chapters are worth the price.

I am practically a Denver native and I was very surprised by how much there is to do in Denver! The book gives great insight into all aspects that make Denver unique, as well as giving good tips to make anyone's visit enjoyable. I bought the book to show some friends around town, and now I have used it to keep myself busy on a few weekends as well.

This 1989 novel is number 3 in what turned out to be a 5 book series about Denver private eye Jacob Lomax who is aked to trace a missing girl one Stephanie Bellano who has gone missing after an arguement with Joseph Bellano her father and combination barber and bookie.The search takes on greater urgency with the murder of her father shortly after..
The search takes him into the world of organised crime in Denver and to a remote religious commune in the Colorado wilds .Along the ay he is beaten up,his friends threatend and he finds a new lady friend
R>Plotting is of Chippendalean dovetail tightness,with two lively shootouts near the end.Atmosphere is potently evoked with the bone freezing Denver December being well realised while Lomax is a reassuringly conventional old style PI-decent,tough and reliable.Indeeed characterisation is good all round and I recommend the book whole heartedly to any devotees of the private eye genre who want to see what the genre was like 20 or so years ago
I would love to know why the guy stopped writing in the early 90's He is missed....

Jason Lynx, the antique dealer/puzzle solver of this series, was trying to avoid talking to an obnoxious acquaintance when he walked past him in the park. It was not until he was trying to creep past the sleeping figure again that Bela, his dog, set up a howl that he realized that Fred was dead.

Jason also knew Fred's sister, who asked him to use his puzzle solving skills to help her find out what happened to her brother.

The deeper Jason dug, the more people appeared who had reason to kill Fred. The theme of this book is the importance of families, what they do to one another and for one another. Jason also gives some great tips on how to decorate a guest room.

Definitely well worth reading although the ending may not satisfy the mystery purist.

This was a strong, adventurous mystery. He writes with a lot of cynical flair. Several good one-liners, and a pulsing chase scene at the end. The killer's identity isn't a huge surprise, but doesn't seem meant to be. The emphasis is on the characters and the setting. Nicely done!

I really enjoyed the story-line of "Denver is Missing". It starts with a deep sea oil rig drilling for oil. The oil bit shatters unexpectedly, halting drilling. Several hours later, bubbles are observed breaking the surface of the water. The scientists on board realize that the bit must have been blown up from hitting a gas pocket. Not knowing what kind of gas (and shocked by the force of it destroying the bit), they draw the ship back. The next morning, what had been just bubbles has now become a visible gasious water spout - shooting upwards into the sky. The sheer pressure of the gas to push through tons of seawater and maintain a solid column means the gas pocket is HUGE. Turns out the gas is inert - but becomes a massive cloud which starts to cirle the earth. Where ever it crosses, oxygen is diluted and all living begin to suffocate. Denver - the mile high city - is the first city where this disaster occurs (but not the last). After weeks of the gas spout activity, the enormous ocean pocket left by the displaced gas collapses - causing multiple Tidal waves which span the globe. This story is told from the viewpoint of a handful of characters who try to escape via an ocean going sailboat. How they manage to survive through these disasters (especially the Tidal waves) is well told. We see how the world changes through their eyes, up to the new world order which is established in the wake of the ongoing menace of the gas cloud. The only drawback to this story is that the characters are dated (1950s), with the unfortunate sterotypical thinking of those times. A little tweaking into a modern screenplay would make this an action movie with great visuals. A delight for the imaginative (and what bookworm isn't?).

This is a really neat book to look through. I often found myself wishing the photogrpahers would have taken an extra few minutes to try to find the exact spot the original was taken from, but I understand that this is not always possible. I am really glad to have this book, and think the price is a bargain.

Published in 1990, this book functions as a dense introduction to the full span of Denver history -- from the town's beginnings as a provider of goods and services to miners leaving for the mountains, to its rise as a transportation and medical hub of the Plains, to its recent oil and high-tech booms. The book is thoughtful and intelligent (and basically the only solid semi-recent book I can find about Denver). The ten years since the book was published have seen immense change in Denver (economic revival, massive suburban growth), however, and the volume sorely needs a discussion of how the recent decade's events and growth have changed the metropolitan area.