Amazon Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group ISBN-10:  1933285451 Type: Fiction Pages: 347 Copyright: May, 2006 ISBN-13: 9781933285451 13 Days is the story of a plot sabotage oil refineries and the woman who must discover and stop it. Four weeks left. A blink of an eye compared to the time rquired to find the perfect piping changes that would increase efficiency, make the calculations, bid it out, get the welders on site to install it, and restart the unit, hoping the whole time the fix worked and you didn't have a fire on start-up. A nanosecond when it took weeks to find additional crude oil supply, unload tankers, run the crude, pipeline the resulting gasoline to wholesalers, and get paid. And you're the only one in this room who cares if you don't meet the deadline because you're the only one who'll be toast. Excerpt "How many souls on board?" Reese asked quietly. Souls on board. What a pilot says when the plane's going down.

Unstoppable
"Rating: Excellent. Author L. A. Starks delivers an unstoppable thriller that put this reviewer in mind of bestselling novesl of this genre over the last several decades, with the welcome addition of depth." --Annie, Euro-Reviews

Can-do Heroine
"For those who like tough can-do heroines, pull up a chair: you'll like Lynn Dayton ... If you like a fast-paced thriller with lots of technical information and a whole skein of loose threads that have to be knotted up, you'll enjoy this." Karen Treanor--New Mystery Reader Magazine

Food for Thought
"This book is worthy of a careful read, and yet it provides entertainment and food for thought . . . Rating: 4 Hearts."--Bob Spear, Chief Reviewer, Heartland Reviews