ISBN: 0-88739-426-4
412 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback
Price: $15.95
Hardcover
Price: $24.95
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Jackson's Gambit
Scott Hogan
Jackson Taylor is a successful businessman, upstanding citizen of Bountiful, Utah, and loving father and husband. But when he loses his entire family in a single month, he embarks on a vigilante mission to nail the local drug cartel he considers responsible and, crazed with grief, assumes the name and identity of Harlan Tripping-a banker turned cab driver, a penniless gambling addict, friendless, loveless. What Jackson thought would take a few months, takes years; and what started out as a false identity becomes more and more real, until the only vestige of Jackson Taylor is the sophistication and business acumen of the sting operation he has designed. As Jackson builds new friendships on a base of lies and false history, his loyalties and responsibilities become increasingly complicated, and the stakes get progressively higher-until he finds himself risking his friends' lives as well as his own in a head-on with the leader of the most powerful of the Mexican drug cartels.
Jackson's Gambit is an intelligent, fast-paced thriller, a fascinating look at the legitimate internet business world and the illegitimate business of drug trafficking, and a poignant portrayal of a character transformed by loss.
Bio: SCOTT HOGAN is the retired CEO of an international company and has lived, worked or done business on every continent. The father of four, grandfather of eight, he lives with his family wife and youngest son in Bountiful, Utah.
Review: "[The] most believable drug trafficking book I have ever read.... Greed, money, and well-defined characters with beautiful settings will transport the reader into a dangerous world where one mistake could be Harlan's last. Compelling and realistic...a gripping read for anyone who likes their fiction to be taken from the fast page of reality!"
-Paul Rapp, Chief of Police, Boutiful, Utah
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