THE SCYLLA HEXAGRAM: KYM A-1 - Softcover

Paul Riva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595307337 ISBN 13: 9780595307333

Publisher: iUniverse, Inc., 2004

Synopsis

As the full moon shines on a sacred Himalayan cliff, Kym Blaze falls into a raging white water river and escapes from a hooded killer who plunged after her.Eighteen years later, a global Secret Service assigns Kym, now an attractive botanist and Special Ops agent, to identify the same hooded killer, known as the Unicorn, whose name has reappeared in the Hong Kong underworld.To find the Unicorn, she must track a star trader called Obermeyer, recently freed from jail by Unicorn henchmen. Kym only has six days to stop the Unicorn from achieving global hegemony, but her emotional demons surface unexpectedly and threaten her survival. Torn between her mission and her past, she must unravel the deadly maze of the Scylla hexagram in order to stay alive and face the dark shadow of her deepest fear.

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About the Author

Paul Riva honed his finance skills working as a treasury specialist and finance coordinator for large companies. He is also a global traveler; his personal adventures include journeys to Europe, North and Central America, South East Asia, and the Middle East. Paul speaks Spanish, French and English fluently. He holds a Master in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA specializing in financial engineering from MIT. The Scylla Hexagram is his first novel.

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Excerpt Chapter 5
4AM Near the China-Hong Kong Border...

The raised arm of the terra-cotta statue had exploded in a thousand pieces and had come alive in the shape of a semi-automatic weapon Four twenty nine shook several terra-cotta pieces off his head and touched his ear with his hand. Part of his right earlobe was missing...

Kym stared at the killer above and froze She saw the brutal silhouette fire a full round of bullets into her chest She fell to the ground and her face hit the cold surface of the tombstone Her mind was wandering, searching, until she found a neural path The dark image flashed before her eyes. The Unicorn was different She crawled over the tombstone and saw the black car move forward The backseat's window rolled up, but she heard the words coming from inside. It was an order, an order to start the madness, from a muffled voice that sounded like an oracle announcing an imminent disaster: "Connect Scylla."...

Excerpt Chapter 8
1AM - 40th floor apartment in downtown Hong Kong...

Obermeyer sat down, turned on his laptop computer and opened the black folder laid out in front of him on the glass table He read the first set of instructions. "Feed random data to T.B. monitors use address: VX41-7@tb.com pword: colloquial." He dialed the access number through his high-speed connection, and broke into the digital data distribution system. His target: the global video switch of Tredman Baks, a prestigious investment bank By altering the software part of the switch, he would feed his own data to the traders´ monitors...

Excerpt Chapter 11
Unicorn basement near Lucky Black opium den...

Cynthia Soong pulled on the rope and a light bulb lit up the basement eerily. Below her, hundreds of carton boxes were piled on top of each other She opened one of the boxes and looked inside.... Packed in hand-size plastic bags inside every box, several tons of heroin No. 4, made from the best Myanmar and Laos poppy, awaited their clients .The collateral was ready for the private placement of the "China White Millenium 1" heroin-backed security...

Excerpt Chapter 20
Under a flyover in Hong Kong...

Using his reputation as a star trader, Obermeyer had convinced some of the top traders in the world to come for a weekend in Hong Kong. To do what they did best. Trade First prize would take all, and first prize was the only prize. The right to play with everyone else s money for a day. Billions of dollars in the hand of a single trader. To get more leverage. To start Phase III. Launch Scylla...

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595307337
• ISBN 13: 9780595307333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186