Fifteen miles from Clark’s townhouse, mere blocks from Tanner and Ernie’s apartment, Colorado’s State Capitol sits on the very spot on the edge of downtown Denver that measures five thousand two hundred and eighty feet—exactly one mile—above sea level. Fifty Two Eighty is the name of a craft brewery, a magazine, and half a dozen tattoo parlors and coffee houses that ooze city spirit. Similarly, the phrase Mile High is used in the name or tag line of just about every radio station, television channel, and chiropractic clinic within thirty miles of the city limits. Which did not, in Tanner’s mind, excuse his bosses at Mile High Airlines for their embarrassingly poor choice of corporate identity. He quite understood why two-thirds of the pot dispensaries in his neighborhood clamored to cash i
