M Ferguson Powers

Counting on Trust M Ferguson Powers

In this suspense-charged, touching novel, Counting on Trust, information is stolen from a U. S. genetic engineering company (Omniprotein) by an employee promised payment by a Chinese general who wants to profit from selling the company's technologies in the military region of China he commands. To force quick payment the thief attacks fellow employees and threatens to continue until his money arrives. Will his next targets be: oyoung lovers, computer geek Gabriel and gorgeous biologist Selena, who are discovering loving sex while trying to overcome post-traumatic effects of Selena's girlhood rape . . .ocompany president, Eleanor, who's determined to keep some privacy and intimacy although her job's high profile and her husband, Charley, has just had prostate cancer surgery . . .oventure capitalist, John, who plans to duplicate Omniprotein's facility in China and reunite with his ex-wife, fashion designer Ziyi, who returned to Shanghai after their only child died. The personal stories of these couples explore how privacy and trust are changing in our social-media age. Sex is taken beyond modern America's view of it as equal female-male access to a commodity to its ages-old status as a supreme way of celebrating love and cementing caring relationships. Reading this novel is nourishing: it offers escape into another world that is so thoroughly researched and detailed it seems alive. The experience is like binge watching a fine television series such as Downton Abbey or The Wire. Counting on Trust is the prequel to OrcaSpeak (2012), in which a lone wolf eco-activist fights to protect killer whales. OrcaSpeak also is available in paperback from Amazon.com and on Kindle