L. A. Starks

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The Second Law

Lynn Dayton Thriller #3

Beschreibung

(Dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the city of New Orleans.) TriCoast Energy executive Lynn Dayton is visiting the company's San Francisco refinery when it comes under attack. Saddened by the fiery deaths of several workers, she traces the explosion to software malfunctions and contacts cybersecurity chief Kanak Singh to track it back to the source. The second law refers to the second law of thermodynamics: it means that in an isolated system everything tends towards chaos. Lynn is still reeling when a TriCoast lease bidding manager is killed in New Orleans. The seeming motive is the theft of his computer containing billion-dollar secret offshore bid plans. Then her long-time mentor and good friend is gunned down in front of her in a Louisiana swamp. What terrible plan lies behind all these crimes? Lynn races against time to uncover a complex plot that stretches from murder in Vienna to a natural gas terminal attack in the Baltic to a major Caribbean oil installation off U.S. shores. Lynn is baffled as she learns of a high-stakes takeover bid by a mysterious group called the Second Law. Who are these people? Worse, who is the mole inside TriCoast that is feeding them so much deadly information? Unless she can find out, thousands more are scheduled to die.

Autor

Texan L. A. Starks is the author of the award-winning Lynn Dayton thriller series: 1) 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy, 2) Strike Price, 3) The Second Law, and now the fourth: Winner's Curse. The Second Law was a quarterfinalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, an Action/Adventure finalist in the 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards, and a mystery/thriller quarterfinalist in the 2019 BookLife Prize competition. The Second Law and Strike Price also won first-place category awards from the Texas Association of Authors. Each book has received five-star reviews from readers.Amazon invited her to beta-test its Virtual Voice software: via Audible, she has published an audiobook edition of 13 Days with Virtual Voice and looks forward to doing so with her remaining three Lynn Dayton thrillers.L. A. Starks is a member (active status) of International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Goodreads. A dedicated reader, she served six years on the board of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library.Starks earned a B.S. (engineering, magna cum laude) at Tulane University in New Orleans and an MBA in finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she played intramural basketball for the Efficient Mockettes. She worked for over a decade for well-known energy companies, with one project earning her co-authorship of a US Patent. Besides writing high-stakes thrillers, Starks is a paid contributor on two Seeking Alpha platforms for her energy investment articles. She has run twenty-one half-marathons. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up and graduated from high school in Oklahoma. She was in the first group of 25 (out of 33,000+ graduates in over a century) inducted into the Ponca City (Oklahoma) High School Hall of Fame. Her favorite recent international destinations are the Swiss and French Alps, Spain, and Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nemaha Ridge Publishing Group LLC
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780991110742
• ISBN-10: 0991110749
• Artikelnr.: 59760852