by Tim Tigner
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Also by Tim Tigner
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About the Author
Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. That was back in the Cold War days when, “We learned Russian so you didn't have to,” something he did at the Presidio of Monterey alongside Recon Marines and Navy SEALs.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim switched from espionage to arbitrage. Armed with a Wharton MBA rather than a Colt M16, he moved to Moscow in the midst of Perestroika. There, he led prominent multinational medical companies, worked with cosmonauts on the MIR Space Station (from Earth, alas), chaired the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, and helped write Russia’s first law on healthcare.
Moving to Brussels during the formation of the EU, Tim ran Europe, Middle East, and Africa for a Johnson & Johnson company and traveled like a character in a Robert Ludlum novel. He eventually landed in Silicon Valley, where he launched new medical technologies as a startup CEO.
In his free time, Tim has climbed the peaks of Mount Olympus, hang glided from the cliffs of Rio de Janeiro, and ballooned over Belgium. He earned scuba certification in Turkey, learned to ski in Slovenia, and ran the Serengeti with a Maasai warrior. He acted on stage in Portugal, taught negotiations in Germany, and chaired a healthcare conference in Holland. Tim studied psychology in France, radiology in England, and philosophy in Greece. He has enjoyed ballet at the Bolshoi, the opera on Lake Como, and the symphony in Vienna. He’s been a marathoner, paratrooper, triathlete, and yogi.
Intent on combining his creativity with his experience, Tim began writing thrillers in 1996 from an apartment overlooking Moscow’s Gorky Park. Decades later, his passion for creative writing continues to grow every day. His home office now overlooks a vineyard in Northern California, where he lives with his wife Elena and their two daughters.
Tim grew up in the Midwest, and graduated from Hanover College with a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics. After military service and work as a financial analyst and foreign-exchange trader, he earned an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton and Lauder Schools.
Thank you for taking the time to read about the author. Tim is most grateful for his loyal fans, and loves to correspond with readers like you. You are welcome to reach him directly at [email protected].
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing novels full of twists and turns is relatively easy. Doing so logically and coherently while maintaining a rapid pace is much tougher. Surprising readers without confusing them is the real art.
I draw on generous fans for guidance in achieving those goals, and for assistance in fighting my natural inclination toward typos. These are my friends, and I’m grateful to them all.
Editors: Andrea Kerr, Jana Marck and Peter Mathon.
Writing Consultants: Judy Marksteiner, Rosemary Paton and Sandy Wallace.
Technical Experts: Tim Ellwood for weapons, and Kevin Mikesell, MD for medicine.
Beta Readers: Errol Adler, Martin Baggs, Dave Berowitz, Doug Branscombe, Kay Brooks, Anna Bruns, Diane Bryant, Pat Carella, John Chaplin, Ian Cockerel, Robert Enzenauer, Geof Ferrell, Andrew Gelsey, Emily Hagman, Susan Harju, Robert Lawrence, Margaret Lovett, Michael Martin, Ed McArdle, Joe McKinley, Phil Nichols, Bill Overton, Brian Pape, Rosemary Paton, Michael Picco, Sharon Ring, Mickey Rudolph, Chris Seelbach, Todd Simpson, Ronald Spunt, and Robert Tigner.
Contents
Falling Stars
Note to Readers
1: Raven
2: Not a Dream
3: Inch by Inch
4: No Words
5: Important
6: Upside Down
7: Battle Prep
8: Spoiled
9: Reassignment
10: Manipulation
11: Katya
12: Promotion
13: Little V
14: Four Questions
15: Drone Defense
16: Ripping
17: Stunned
18: Needle
19: Invisible
20: Chatter
21: MiMiC
22: LeClaire
23: Skolkovo
24: Tipping
25: Spark
26: Party Time
27: Improvements
28: Illusion
29: Martin
30: Vertical Vision
31: Headset
32: Barriers
33: Bingo!
34: Victor
35: Double Take
36: Three Heads
37: Separation
38: Instant Gratification
39: The Path
40: Not Enough
41: Genetic Dice
42: Identity Crisis
43: The Golden State
44: Telephony
45: Sightseeing
46: Checkpoint Charlie
47: Insufficient Funds
48: Child's Play
49: The Drop
50: Apparitions
51: Plan O
52: Laws of Physics
53: Mirror, Mirror
54: Deflation
55: Divide and Conquor
56: Goal Posts
57: Three-Day Plan
58: Boris
59: Lessons
60: Muscle Beach
61: Game Over
62: Big Ambition
63: Amusements
64: Altitude and Attitude
65: Attitude
66: Lucky
67: The Fifth Man
68: Garwood
69: The Bottom
70 Ka-BOOM
71: One Pop
72: Cascade
73: Two Thuds
74: Canary
75: Broken Branches
76: The Big Easy
77: Messaging
78: Fair Warning
79: Missing Picture
80: High Net Worth
81: Bad Returns
82: The Finger
83: A Terrible Truth
84: Emergency
85: The Show
86: New Policy
87: Percentages
88: Captcha
89: The Arrow
90: Things to Come
91: Crazy
92: All Inclusive
93: Jack in the Box
94: The Number
95: Hamburger Helper
96: Gurgle
97: Serious Problems
98: Strange Bedfellows
99: Dread
100: Cavalry
101: Opening Doors
102: Black and White
103: One Step Ahead
104: Words Unspoken
105: Toast
106: Do it
107: Disagreement
108: Suspicion
109: Leapfrog
110: Shoulder to Shoulder
111: The Choice
112: Revelations
Epilogue
Notes and Trivia
Free Book Link
About the Author
Acknowledgments
