Böcker av Tom Erickson

Your Move II is the second in a series of seven novels that recounts an ongoing story of espionage, Middle East terrorism, murder, and most of all, convenient alliances.The first book, Your Move I, introduces a cast of worldwide characters. Each operates within a sphere of influence they consider their own. Individuals with credentials from the CIA, FBI, MI-6 and Mossad think they're paragons for good. Others like tattooed Yakuza oynbuns in Japan, crime bosses in America, and drug czars running the Mexican drug cartels view themselves as businessmen servicing a willing clientele. A third group of tough guys-members of the Russian KGB, the Iranian Red Guard, and the Ministry of State Security in China-claim they're the last barrier from a planet dominated by the West.Your Move II follows these white and black hats, then explains how a single event propels this menagerie of titans to lose focus and inadvertently set deadly entanglements in motion.Patricia Shaver is their prime target. She's an heiress to a Chicago banking fortune and the author of documentary-style articles. The mid-thirties beauty only started to appear on their radar screens when she accidentally unearths a payoff file that ties the male icons in her family to the Chicago Mafia.Lady MacBeth got it right: Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.Initially, Pat is shocked by her discovery. Then intuitive skills take over and she travels to Washington, DC to seek advice from Senator Scott Sheppard, her family's oldest and dearest friend. Uncle Scott is evasive and his stonewalling heightens her curiosity. Unbeknownst to anyone, she begins an investigation, but her successes have consequences. As she begins to understand what motivated the patriarchs in her distinguished banking family to rub elbows with the Mob, she also penetrates the spaces of people who don't believe in second chances.

Your Move I is a story of espionage, murder, and convenient alliances. The novel is set in an equestrian village northwest of Chicago. An investigative reporter walking with her yellow Labrador retriever unearths a payoff file that implicates the male icons in her family. Conflicted, she spends three days ignoring her journalistic standards."tis an ill cook who cannot lick his own fingers."Patricia Shaver is much more than the heiress to a banking fortune. Aside from writing documentary-style articles that call attention to social injustices, she uses her billion-dollar charitable foundation to level the playing field.To her, identifying good and evil is a cut and dried process, but as she wrestles with a methodology to bring the payoff file to the public's attention, she inadvertently becomes involved with incidents having international ramifications. Thrust into an unfamiliar arena, she discovers that her formula for identifying trustworthy individuals is far from perfect. In a world where the ends justify the means, black hats can cover halos and white hats can cover horns.