Strike Price [Paperback]

If you're looking for big business wheeling-and-dealing, international intrigue, murder, mayhem, and high-geared action, you've come to the right place. Toss in a charming and nervy protagonist like Lynn Dayton and L. A. Starks' STRIKE PRICE is right on the money. Well-written, well-plotted and well worth?a reader's time. --Carlton Stowers, two-time Edgar winner
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STRIKE PRICE takes the reader from Oklahoma Indian reservations to the streets of Florence, in an imaginative and well informed fusion of oil refining economics, Native American politics, and the potential for lethal mayhem in the global energy market. --Michael Ennis, author of New York Times bestseller, The Malice of Fortune

Murder disrupts a billion-dollar oil deal. STRIKE PRICE is a story about a business deal turned deadly, concluding with a plot to destroy a hidden, crucial US oil center and bring the US into confrontation with another global power. To stop the plot and save lives, up-by-the-bootstraps Lynn Dayton must trust a Cherokee elder who carries a corrosive secret.

Exclusively in the print edition, STRIKE PRICE features authentic Cherokee syllabary text in clues that tie fascinating Native American history to global high-stakes drama today.

Plan on not sleeping tonight. James Gary Vineyard - - - author of The Grave On Peckerwood Hill

Fast-paced and convincingly choreographed, Starks' novel presents a spot-on depiction of today's oil business that grips and scares and offers the reader plenty to think about. Richard Holcroft - - - author of Patriot's Blood

KIRKUS REVIEWStarks (13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy, 2006) offers a thriller set in oil country.