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In the affluent community of Pacific Heights, the wives of two powerful San Francisco businessmen are unknowingly having affairs with the same man. Attractive and cunning, Ryan Kroll is known for his creative and often violent ways of obtaining information for a powerful corporation. Then the women's therapist discovers that he has stolen their files. The job of stopping Kroll before it's too late falls to Marten Fane, a retired SID detective.
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This story which introduces Marten Fane, appears at first glance to be yet another mystery/thriller "series". Actually it is something quite different. Pacific Heights is a story that reaches beyond itself. Even though it is a self-contained story, it is actually more than that: it's the first "chapter", or "installment", or "episode" of a single, much larger story that will unfold over the span of multiple novels. Therefore, Marten Fane will be the protagonist in a serial novel, rather than a novel series.
Pacific Heights is also a story that doesn't confine itself to a single genre. It is part mystery, part thriller, part spy novel, and like life itself, it cannot be categorized easily. In this respect it reflects the hybrid world in which it is set: the growing, fast-changing, increasingly complex world of privatized intelligence. The U.S. government now spends more than 70 percent of its national intelligence budget on private contractors. The implications of this sea change for our culture are profound. And though it will have a far-reaching effect on our lives, we will have very little, if anything, to say about it. In an age when communication is a vastly more important part of our lives than at any other time in history, secrecy casts a darker shadow than ever before.
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Pacific Heights is also a story that doesn't confine itself to a single genre. It is part mystery, part thriller, part spy novel, and like life itself, it cannot be categorized easily. In this respect it reflects the hybrid world in which it is set: the growing, fast-changing, increasingly complex world of privatized intelligence. The U.S. government now spends more than 70 percent of its national intelligence budget on private contractors. The implications of this sea change for our culture are profound. And though it will have a far-reaching effect on our lives, we will have very little, if anything, to say about it. In an age when communication is a vastly more important part of our lives than at any other time in history, secrecy casts a darker shadow than ever before.
Paul Harper, a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling thriller writer, reinvents himself with the Marten Fane crime series. A native Texan, Paul Harper lives with his wife in Austin.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1410443604
- ISBN 13 9781410443601
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages381
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