
Lesson learned: never let one review throw you off.Īnyways, last week I had picked up Down River by John Hart and was so disappointed in it that I dropped it after 80 pages. I don't know why I never picked it up, but I must have read a lukewarm review for it somewhere that had turned me off it. The book ended up sitting on my shelf for nine years.

So, I jotted it down on my to-read list, and it was about a year later that I stumbled upon it in a used book store and walked out with it and a few other lucky finds. In fact, he had admitted to confronting complete strangers in bookstores and insisting they read it. His life.Īnd just when it seems he's pulled it off, Ben Kearns there's a small hitch: Even in a small town in Montana, it's only a matter of time before your past catches up with you.īack in 2002, I receive an email from a visitor to my website imploring me to read The Big Picture. But the price tag is high: Ben must give up his friends, his home, his children, his name. Quickly realizing that there is only one way out, he sets into motion a meticulously detailed plan that ultimately lands him out West, with a shot at the proverbial second chance.

When a confrontation with the lover turns ugly, a spilt second is all it takes to change Ben's life forever.

Not only are Ben's dreams of life as a professional photographer slipping away, but so is his wife - into the arms of another man, who, Ben discovers, just happens to be a photographer. But scratch the surface and you'll find a deeply unhappy man. What If You Had to Choose Between Your Life and Someone Else's?īen Bradford has it all: a beautiful wife and two healthy sons, a big house in an affluent Connecticut suburb, partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm.
