THE SCYLLA HEXAGRAM: KYM A-1

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.

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.