[Vision2020] Sun Valley Sheriff and Ridley Pearson novels

[Ken]

Fiction closer than far away:

From assassins out to kill a potential presidential candidate to thieves 
crashing an auction of costly wines, Sun Valley, Idaho, criminals often come 
from the outside — and when they do, it's fictional Sheriff Walt Fleming's 
job to clean things up.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129081586 

But Fleming isn't all fiction. Writer Ridley Pearson, who has written four 
thrillers starring the sheriff, says he based his hero on Walt Femling, the 
real sheriff of Sun Valley and usually the first person to look at Pearson's 
finished novels.

The rest of this story is at the link above, including 7:21 of audio by Linda 
Wertheimer of NPR.


Ken