Triple Cross by Mark T. Sullivan
The Los Angeles Times says, Mark T. Sullivan writes "real, old-fashioned thrillers... all bodily functions and the ability to care for one's family to be suspended while reading," According to the London Literary review, Mark's novels are "superbly written tales of suspense, mystery and adventure." Writer Robert Crais said, "Triple Cross makes you wonder why the bottom really dropped out of the stock market. The story snaps and twists like a cracking whip, and I defy you to guess the ending."So, why did it take almost five years for ex-journalist Sullivan to write his new novel, Triple Cross?
"I know some of my readers and fans have been asking why," Sullivan said. "Some of the reasons were business related, painful and not worth getting into. But after the publication of Serpent's Kiss, I was burnt out for a while and spent a few months wandering around in the woods and along the rivers near my house in Montana, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. The answer after all that therapeutic navel gazing was that I wanted to continue to write. I realized that writing is one of my favorite things to do, and that got my butt back in the chair and my fingers on the keyboard."
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.
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. ThrillerFest
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