Category: Action/Thriller Publisher: Strategic Book Group
Type: Fiction
Pages: 389
Copyright: Oct 18, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781609764029
A $400 million dollar amusement park goes out of business in three, months and, the new own buys the assets for $ 25 million. The local media queen and her managing editor thinks there's more to the story, as their skeptical to the resources available to the new owner.
Regional media conglomerate Kaitlyn Tufts and her managing editor Jack O’Banyon want to find out the real background story of the year in Myrtle Beach, SC. The Rocktime Amusement park that was built for $ 400 million dollars, but went bankrupt four months after it opens. The park was then purchased four months later for $ 25 million dollars. It’s about what they discover about the new owners their solution to protect the community’s interests.
The new owner of the park, Melvin Rollin, is being blackmailed to become a front man for a foreign company with illegal side interests. As the silent investor, the company has sent four men to protect and expand their American businesses. Step one is control of Rollin. Step two is establishing a base of operations to expand their interests in the South.
Melvin Rollin is an amusement park junkie, and the last half that career is near the end as an amusement park consultant. His consultancy and intervention history with Rocktime impresario the Real Bobby Steele got him the Rocktime Amusement Park gig. He had been fully paid for his work, and not one of the many creditors left standing in line. He was the one person with any integrity left and with a comprehensive knowledge on the park when the State Trustee and Bank came to him to help find a new owner. If he could save the park, that would be a nice cap to his career. But the economy in late 2009 was not going to help his cause. He never saw his client’s predatory side until it was too late.
To Kaitlyn Tufts, it was about protecting her empire and the interests of the Grand Strand. To Jack O’Banyon it was about protecting Kaitlyn, and loving the life with Ruby: proprietor of Ruby and Paulo’s.
Excerpt
Myrtle Beach was a lifetimes away from what Alli Peshwar’s life might have been thirty years ago in northern Pakistan, or even now. A life in which the Peshwar family trade had always been moving men and commodities between their village and tribes north of the border. A life into which he was recruited as a teenager to assist his father and the clan which required travel at night and sleeping under a rock outcrop, or the honeycomb of caves which were natural or made by his ancestors over the centuries. A life which his father instilled life’s priorities and allegiances: Allah, the family, the tribe.
None this troika built on faith and blood acknowledged the relevance to borders or governments that defined the border from some distant capitols. There was timelessness to it all, and sameness to the stories handed down to each generation. It was a region once occupied by the Persians, the Greeks, the Mongols, the Turks, the British, the Russians, and now the Americans. No outsider ever lasted long here. No one except the tribes whom Allah protected. The tribes who controlled the trade routes and commerce. The tribes collected all manner of tolls from those who passed through the region and from each other when the outsiders were eventually vanquished, as they always were.
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