An ordinary balloon flight precipitates extraordinary changes. In A SENIOR'S MOMENT, violent events associated with the short flight terminate several lives. Other routine lives change forever. The terrified pilot of the dark grey hot air balloon makes a clumsy landing in the desert and, running for his life, heads for the nearest person in sight. Instead of finding aid, he is murdered. When the police arrive, the body lies on the patio of a nearby home and the balloon has disappeared. The owner of the home, Bill Hamilton, a salesman, and his wife April, a legal assistant, are warned in an...