Diane Wellman is a twenty one year old Texas police officer who stumbles into the scene of a brutal double murder. While she stops to investigate, her patrol car is stolen and she becomes a laughing stock for the force. Determined to solve the crime, Diane finds her efforts thwarted at every stage and is eventually framed on a narcotics charge and sent to the same prison in upper New York that houses Gale. She, too, has made enemies.

The two opposites, in age, education, dietary habits and philosophies find themselves cellmates. Gale has nothing to lose while Diane is bent on revenge. Together they plot and accomplish their escape: one intent on finding who sent her to prison the other yearning to breathe the air of freedom once more before she dies.

The author, Kim Wozencraft , was a narcotics officer herself and according to the book jacket also spent some time in prison. Perhaps that experience gives her writing such a cachet of reality. Taut and well written the tale of these unlikely comrades soon draws the reader into their desperate race across the country. One seeks peace, the other justice. Thelma and Louise have nothing on these two.

--Jane Davis