David Lindsey

The Secrets of Mission Drive (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Russell Pearce is an investigative journalist who decided to quit his newspaper job and work freelance. It hasn't gone well. The pressure of his failing freelance career is putting stresses on his marriage which is in deep trouble. Driving home one night from the lake district west of Austin where a key source has just imploded his last hope for his last viable story, Russ stops at a tourist overlook on the twisting Mission Drive, a scenic cliffside road high above the Colorado River and overlooking the historic Spanish Solito Mission and its small community. Suddenly the headlights of two speeding cars appear on the winding curves of the drive coming his way, their headlights panning wildly with each turn. As the two cars scream past him Russ watches in astonishment as they recklessly disappear around the next bend-then abruptly he hears screeching tires and the headlights of one of the cars swerve and lurch into the night sky and then down as the car plunges off the road and down the steep hillside as the other car flees.

Stunned, Russ scrambles down to the wrecked car which had slammed into a huge tree, saving it from plummeting off the high cliff down to the river. Inside the crumpled car he finds a dying man. His face smashed horribly, he can barely talk as he fights to stay conscious. He begs Russ to give a message to a woman named Sharlene. The message is cryptic and fraught with urgency and menacing implications. The man dies without telling Russ the woman's last name.

In just a few short minutes Russ' life changes dramatically and he finds himself inside a riddle in which he now has a critical role, though he doesn't know what it is or what its about. But as his journalistic instincts kick in, he also realizes that he is outside the riddle as well, and that he has stumbled upon the beginnings of a hell of a story-and an opportunity to turn around his career.

With the help of his wife Maret, who postpones leaving him to help him regain his professional footing, the two uneasy partners peel apart the layers of a complex plot.

It is the story of two intertwining elements: how a controlling and cruel tech company CEO contrives to steal his wife's lucrative inheritance, the company he runs; and the inextricable complexities of human relationships that no one can ever truly understand, or escape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Lindsey
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963821093
• Artikelnr.: 74795187

Autorenporträt

I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.

I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.

Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.

When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.