THE OPPOSITE OF TRUTH
Imagine that someone you’ve trusted turns out to be an international criminal. And that someone wants you dead when you discover the truth. Now imagine that someone is your wife.
Jacklyn "Jack" Pelletier, a successful LA ad executive, meets Marley Mallon over a Molotov cocktail neither of them ordered. As they heal from this shocking event, they fall in love and marry. But on a business trip to Italy, the full damage from the explosion becomes apparent when Jack suffers a sudden and devastating stroke. She survives, but soon Marley has dropped all pretense of being a loving wife. Their crumbling relationship reveals that Jack is surrounded by a web of deception, the breadth and depth of which she never could have imagined. To make it out alive, she’ll have to best a most dangerous opponent at an explosive game of wits.
THE OPPOSITE OF TRUTH is a twisty domestic/crime thriller about fraud, betrayal, and revenge. At its heart, it is a novel about advertising: about selling a story, whether it is the truth or a fiction, and about shiny, dazzling surfaces and all the dirty secrets they conceal.
Imagine that someone you’ve trusted turns out to be an international criminal. And that someone wants you dead when you discover the truth. Now imagine that someone is your wife.
Jacklyn "Jack" Pelletier, a successful LA ad executive, meets Marley Mallon over a Molotov cocktail neither of them ordered. As they heal from this shocking event, they fall in love and marry. But on a business trip to Italy, the full damage from the explosion becomes apparent when Jack suffers a sudden and devastating stroke. She survives, but soon Marley has dropped all pretense of being a loving wife. Their crumbling relationship reveals that Jack is surrounded by a web of deception, the breadth and depth of which she never could have imagined. To make it out alive, she’ll have to best a most dangerous opponent at an explosive game of wits.
THE OPPOSITE OF TRUTH is a twisty domestic/crime thriller about fraud, betrayal, and revenge. At its heart, it is a novel about advertising: about selling a story, whether it is the truth or a fiction, and about shiny, dazzling surfaces and all the dirty secrets they conceal.
THE MACHINE
When private investigator Riley Cole becomes the prime suspect in the execution-style murder of San Francisco club owner Marcus D’Addario, she must find the real shooter before police uncover a darker truth: she has been moonlighting as a fixer and killer for her powerful lover, federal Judge Kurtwood Roth. If Cole doesn’t identify D’Addario’s killer before the authorities discover her secret past, her carefully compartmentalized life could unravel and send her to prison.
Before Cole discovers who set her up for murder, she exposes the most chilling criminal conspiracy ever attempted. The leader of a South American drug cartel and the powerful American behind it, known only as the Yankee, plan to deposit cartel cash rigged to destroy everything in bank vaults across the country. Any person who shorted currency stocks could make millions if they knew the market crash was imminent. Problem is: who’s that person? The investigation stretches from the Tenderloin to Washington, D.C., and the stakes rise when Cole exposes Judge Roth’s culpability in the scheme and uncovers the Yankee’s identity, implicating the highest levels of the judiciary. THE MACHINE redefines power and control—who holds it, who yields it, and who pays the price. As Cole learns, this case is not about how far she will go to get the truth, but whether she can handle it. And when she finally learns who killed D’Addario, it exposes a devastatingly complicated family dynamic.
THE MACHINE is a twisty high-stakes crime thriller featuring a morally ambiguous heroine whose secrets may be deadlier than the crimes she investigates. At its heart, it’s a story about justice versus corruption, and whether individual killings can ever be justified in service of a greater good; and the personal costs of secrecy and dual lives. A pulse-pounding thriller that feels incredibly relevant today. As if David Baldacci’s Absolute Power meets John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief.
When private investigator Riley Cole becomes the prime suspect in the execution-style murder of San Francisco club owner Marcus D’Addario, she must find the real shooter before police uncover a darker truth: she has been moonlighting as a fixer and killer for her powerful lover, federal Judge Kurtwood Roth. If Cole doesn’t identify D’Addario’s killer before the authorities discover her secret past, her carefully compartmentalized life could unravel and send her to prison.
Before Cole discovers who set her up for murder, she exposes the most chilling criminal conspiracy ever attempted. The leader of a South American drug cartel and the powerful American behind it, known only as the Yankee, plan to deposit cartel cash rigged to destroy everything in bank vaults across the country. Any person who shorted currency stocks could make millions if they knew the market crash was imminent. Problem is: who’s that person? The investigation stretches from the Tenderloin to Washington, D.C., and the stakes rise when Cole exposes Judge Roth’s culpability in the scheme and uncovers the Yankee’s identity, implicating the highest levels of the judiciary. THE MACHINE redefines power and control—who holds it, who yields it, and who pays the price. As Cole learns, this case is not about how far she will go to get the truth, but whether she can handle it. And when she finally learns who killed D’Addario, it exposes a devastatingly complicated family dynamic.
THE MACHINE is a twisty high-stakes crime thriller featuring a morally ambiguous heroine whose secrets may be deadlier than the crimes she investigates. At its heart, it’s a story about justice versus corruption, and whether individual killings can ever be justified in service of a greater good; and the personal costs of secrecy and dual lives. A pulse-pounding thriller that feels incredibly relevant today. As if David Baldacci’s Absolute Power meets John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief.