Sullivan's new thriller, Triple Cross, tells of an attack on a ski resort for the super-wealthy on New Year's Eve. Seven of the richest men in the world are captured in the take-over and put on trial, live on the Internet, for all the world to see and judge. A story well worth waiting for and, possibly, out of tomorrow's headlines.

Sullivan opens his thriller on New Year's Eve at the Jefferson Club, a luxurious private ski resort in the mountains of southwestern Montana. A U.S. Senator is among the guests gathered in the ballroom of the club's spectacular main lodge for a private party.

Expensive champagne flows and multi-billion dollar deals are getting done, when, at the stroke of midnight, a ruthless and well-armed militia attacks the club. Self-described anti-globalists, they intend to put the wealthy patrons of the club on trial for crimes against humanity, live on the Internet for all the world to see.

As the first trial unfolds, it becomes a media sensation, with tens of millions of viewers who are allowed to vote as jury members. It seems harmless, funny, until one of the tycoons is convicted and put to death just as stock and bond trading opens for the New Year. The markets are rocked by the execution, and start to plummet as more of the billionaires are put on trial.

The only people who can prevent an outright market crash, stop the madness, and uncover the true reasons behind the brutal attack are Mickey Hennessy, the club's director of security, his three fourteen-year-old children and Cheyenne O'Neil, an FBI financial crimes specialist.

Ultimately capitalism and anti-globalism collide with stunning consequences in a searing narrative that's a lean blend of suspense, dark humor and explosive action, as well as a novel that raises compelling questions about who the real criminals are in a world where financial markets can be manipulated on an unfathomable scale and a powerful few profit at the expense of the many.

Today, Sullivan lives in southwest Montana with his wife and two teenage sons.

First and foremost, however, he remains a writer. Sullivan is hard at work on a new novel set in the world of professional thieves, the CIA and international crime lords. It is tentatively entitled The Eighteenth Rule, and shouldn't take five years to finish.

Michael Haskins spent five years as the business editor/writer for the daily Key West Citizen and then another five years as the city's public information officer. His first book, Chasin' the Wind, has sold out of its first printing and its sequel, Free Range Institution, is at the publishers. He is currently writing the third in his Mad Mick Murphy Mystery series, Car Wash Blues.