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Deadly Dividends (Second Edition)
Deadly Dividends (Second Edition)
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DEADLY DIVIDENDS (Second Edition) is a cross-country chase thriller seasoned with mystery, humor, and adult romance.
A once-prominent Chicago army base has been closed and made available for domestic development -- a so-called post-war "peace dividend." But when Architect Grey Harper arrives from California to take charge of a major housing project, he discovers an on-site situation of gravest concern among certain high-ranking federal officials. Within hours, they decide Harper's secret knowledge is cause for his immediate demise.
Or so he says. That's the story Grey Harper tells to a vibrant and enchanting property manager, Elissa Bennett Pope, while drawing her into a desperate journey from the shores of Lake Michigan to the cliffs of the Pacific Coast.
But Federal Agents tell a different story, about a murder on federal property with Harper as the prime suspect. They say he shot a corporate boss to cover his own costly design flaws -- and he enticed Elissa Pope to join his escapade as an unwitting hostage. Heading the pursuit is an FBI Inspector who is aided by a ruthless mercenary who has been recruited for the operation by a Pentagon General. All the resources they need are readily available, officially or not.
Along the way, Harper adapts his architectural creativity to various schemes of evasion, often to Elissa's fascination and consternation. At times, she can't decide whether Harper's mind is indicative of brilliance or madness. Either way, she can't help her attraction to him. She's only recently found independence from a former abusive husband, by pursuing careers in real estate, property management, and amateur theatre. Harper, on the other hand, is secretive about his former wife and the mysterious ending of that marriage at his cliff-top home in Carmel, California.
As they race across the Great Plains and through the Rockies, and down into the Bonneville Salt Flats, the dark specter of sudden death -- never far behind -- leaps ahead of them... and waits.
In this revised and polished Second Edition, readers should find the characters appealing, the twists and turns surprising, and the pace as quick as a Mercedes-Benz roadster. (It's the car Harper loves to drive -- and wreck.)
A once-prominent Chicago army base has been closed and made available for domestic development -- a so-called post-war "peace dividend." But when Architect Grey Harper arrives from California to take charge of a major housing project, he discovers an on-site situation of gravest concern among certain high-ranking federal officials. Within hours, they decide Harper's secret knowledge is cause for his immediate demise.
Or so he says. That's the story Grey Harper tells to a vibrant and enchanting property manager, Elissa Bennett Pope, while drawing her into a desperate journey from the shores of Lake Michigan to the cliffs of the Pacific Coast.
But Federal Agents tell a different story, about a murder on federal property with Harper as the prime suspect. They say he shot a corporate boss to cover his own costly design flaws -- and he enticed Elissa Pope to join his escapade as an unwitting hostage. Heading the pursuit is an FBI Inspector who is aided by a ruthless mercenary who has been recruited for the operation by a Pentagon General. All the resources they need are readily available, officially or not.
Along the way, Harper adapts his architectural creativity to various schemes of evasion, often to Elissa's fascination and consternation. At times, she can't decide whether Harper's mind is indicative of brilliance or madness. Either way, she can't help her attraction to him. She's only recently found independence from a former abusive husband, by pursuing careers in real estate, property management, and amateur theatre. Harper, on the other hand, is secretive about his former wife and the mysterious ending of that marriage at his cliff-top home in Carmel, California.
As they race across the Great Plains and through the Rockies, and down into the Bonneville Salt Flats, the dark specter of sudden death -- never far behind -- leaps ahead of them... and waits.
In this revised and polished Second Edition, readers should find the characters appealing, the twists and turns surprising, and the pace as quick as a Mercedes-Benz roadster. (It's the car Harper loves to drive -- and wreck.)
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