Vultures in the Playground [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Name: Archie Parsons. Occupation: Malaria consultant. Hobbies: Mosquito husbandry. Boulder climbing. Long walks at sunset in failed states.

That last item nearly gets Archie killed when he is mugged fresh off a plane in Liberia. He is lucky to limit his damage to a scalp contusion and a stolen passport.

Turns out, these weren’t run-of-the-mill thugs. They work for a secret and powerful industrial consortium. Their goals: murder and identity theft. They want Archie’s visas and connections with Ministers to ...
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Overview

Name: Archie Parsons. Occupation: Malaria consultant. Hobbies: Mosquito husbandry. Boulder climbing. Long walks at sunset in failed states.

That last item nearly gets Archie killed when he is mugged fresh off a plane in Liberia. He is lucky to limit his damage to a scalp contusion and a stolen passport.

Turns out, these weren’t run-of-the-mill thugs. They work for a secret and powerful industrial consortium. Their goals: murder and identity theft. They want Archie’s visas and connections with Ministers to lubricate a killing spree of obstructive politicians and activists in and around the Gulf of Guinea. The executions are to be handled by their top assassin – a man named Black.

During a second attempt to take down Archie, Black is killed in a freak accident in an airport washroom. But the consortium assumes that their man prevailed. He’s Agent Black, after all.

They blindly shuttle Archie all over West Africa, providing airline tickets, weapons and intelligence via briefcases left in luxury hotel suites. For a time he plays along, exploiting his mistaken identity to warn intended targets of their peril.

When the consortium discovers their error, they dispatch Black’s East African counterpart, a man named White, to set things straight. Archie finds himself pitted against the most brutal corporate assassin on the African continent.

The State Department won’t help him because he’s officially deceased, not to mention, some of their people are consortium plants. The only person who comes to his aide is his cat-sitter Melissa, a young woman with a shadowy past that makes her much more formidable than she seems.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940011405860
  • Publisher: A. Sparrow, via Smashwords
  • Publication date: 7/7/2011
  • Sold by: SMASHWORDS - EBKS
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 29,474
  • File size: 708 KB

Meet the Author

I'm an amateur writer without a whole lot of interest in traditional publishing. I never query agents, but amazingly, so far none have complained about my absence from their slush piles. I have no problem with those who still aim to squeeze a living from this moribund profession. I don't have the time or patience to mess around.

I write contemporary fantasies mixed with heavy doses of reality, as well as the occasional seriocomic anti-thriller. My protagonists tend to be as non-heroic, socially inept and untalented as their creator.

I write because I'm a fussy reader who has struggled and failed to hunt down books worth reading at my local book shops. Maybe it's because I prefer the fresh and unexpected over recycled characters and plots. Maybe it's my eccentricity. Or maybe it's plain old ADD. Whatever the case, my nightstand and bookshelves are littered with partially read hardcovers and paperbacks that have failed to sustain my interest. It reached the point that if I wanted to be entertained by writing, I had to do it myself.

Early reviews justly criticize some lapses in proof-reading. Those errors have largely been rectified.

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