Bill Powers

Broschiertes Buch

The Torch Is Passed

A Harding Family Story Volume 2

Beschreibung

First there was The Pharm House, Finalist in the Medical Thriller category of the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards, where readers met Nicholas Harding and his daughter, Andrea. Now comes the second Harding Family story, where Andrea has just graduated college. Her world is turned upside down when her father, Nicholas, and her uncle, Michael, are shot in a surprising and puzzling attack. As the only family other than her paternal grandmother, Dorothy, it falls to Andrea to not only investigate who would want to kill her father and uncle, but also to oversee Harding Industries. She soon finds herself surrounded by a bevy of intriguing new friends and helpers, including an abrasive, but loyal, attorney and an eccentric southerner with more money than God, an intriguing background in international espionage, and an extraordinary ability to get what she wants. Who would want to hurt the Hardings? And why? Could it be family friend Don Marshall, with his shady past? Or Andrea's second father figure, Marcus Ricci, who is allegedly tied to the New Jersey mob? And why is Oakes Industries, run by Carlton and Jefferson Oakes and their cousin, New Jersey state senator Schuyler Colfax, so eager to buy Harding Industries? Masterfully told using a smattering of historical facts along with a soundtrack of classical music masterpieces, this thriller keeps readers on edge until the very end.

Autor

Bill Powers is a former pharmaceutical R&D executive, world traveler, and history buff turned author. Bill's first Harding Family novel, The Pharm House, was published in 2013 by DonnaInk Publications, Inc., and was named a Finalist in the Medical Thriller category of the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards. In that debut novel, Bill put to use his twenty-six years of experience working for Johnson & Johnson in pharmaceutical R&D, where he ultimately rose to the position of Vice President, Global Preclinical Development. In his years with the company, Bill was instrumental in the development of several marketed pharmaceutical products, leading groups of scientists in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Bill has also led research groups in Belgium and India, in addition to his extensive personal travels in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He earned his PhD in Toxicology from the University of Cincinnati, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology, and has published numerous abstracts, articles, and book chapters on a variety of toxicology subjects. Bill's parents were both teachers who stoked his childhood love for words and voracious appetite for reading. He is married, with one adult child, and has moved away from the corporate world to focus on his writing career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookbaby
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781682226780
• ISBN-10: 1682226786
• Artikelnr.: 44497536