I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.
I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.
Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.
When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.
Ella Barnes is a veteran war zone photojournalist who has seen way too much senseless violence. Quitting her harrowing assignment in Nigeria, she returns to her peaceful retreat in Austin. But her homecoming spirals into a nightmare when she discovers her husband's chronic infidelities, soon followed by his death in a hotel room. When the pathologist who conducts his autopsy covertly contacts Ella with disturbing revelations, and then mysteriously "commits suicide," Ella vows to uncover the truth behind their deaths and the double life Brady was living.
Ella's investigating soon leads to Annalise Steiner who learned to scam and swindle from her deadbeat father. But unlike him, she's good at it. Now she makes millions as an underworld Dark Broker, and has recently moved into to a river-island home in Austin to begin the final stages of her biggest con.
In a treacherous gambit of bribes and lies, she has stolen the anticounterfeiting algorithms of a major international pharmaceutical company for their soon-to-be released line of new medications. She sells the algorithms to a transnational drug trader, enabling him to infiltrate counterfeit pharmaceuticals into the legitimate global supply chain without risk of discovery. Even though Annalise's price is high, the buyer knows it's only a fraction of the fortune he can make with the stolen algorithms.
But Annalise overreaches. Driven by greed, she sells the algorithms again, to a second international dealer. Neither man knows the other is involved. Each of them believes he has made an "exclusive" deal with Annalise.
Meanwhile, Alan Shea, a former intelligence operative who has tracked Annalise for several years, finally catches up with her in Austin. Soon Ella and Alan's paths cross, and they team up. Plunging into Annalise's labyrinth of lies, they resort to deceptions of their own, pushing against time and risk to stop her scheme.
But just as Annalise's complex con spins toward its finale, it begins to unravel violently. At the same time Alan and Ella's fabrications reach a tipping point as well. Alan is almost killed, leaving Ella to pursue Annalise alone to the Cayman Islands. There, with careful planning and a lot of luck, Ella sets another trap for Annalise. But fate catches both women by surprise. When the end comes, nothing goes the way either of them had planned—or imagined.
Título : Fate Surprised Her
EAN : 9781963821031
Editorial : David Lindsey
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