The Garden of Betrayal
By (Author) Lee Vance
Atlantic Books
Corvus
1st February 2012
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
448
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 31mm
421g
In the seven years since his son, Kyle, disappeared off the streets of Manhattan, Mark Wallace has been slowly rebuilding his career as an energy market analyst and struggling to keep his family intact. But things are about to take a dangerous turn. After a terrorist attack on a Russian oil pipeline, a colleague slips Mark classified information about Saudi oil fields, then suddenly turns up dead. With his family still reeling from Kyle's disappearance, Mark takes it upon himself to learn how these seemingly disparate pieces all fit together.
In a remarkable high-wire balancing act, Lee Vance has combined the intrigue of finance, the cutthroat world of energy politics, and the emotional pull of a family in crisis into a powerful, gripping thriller.
Just now and then a new thriller comes along that knocks your socks off, a book that fizzes with energy and comes complete with a plot to die for, characters that you care about and a denouement that forces that breath out of your body... Taut as a wire, this is the best debut thriller I've read this year - by a country mile
Lee Vance is a graduate of Harvard Business School and a retired general partner of Goldman Sachs Group. He and his family lived in London for eight years before returning home to New York City, where he now lives with his wife and three children.