Seven years ago, energy analyst Mark Wallaces twelve-year-old son disappeared. Mark never stopped searching for him, but there has been no lead, no motive, no trace... Until today.But today Mark has also been handed clandestine data on Saudi oil reserves and a Russian oil pipeline has been destroyed in an apparent terrorist attack.Coincidence or conspiracy?Together with his now teenage daughter, Mark must unearth the terrifying connections between his familys tragedy and a looming energy war...
In the seven years since his son, Kyle, disappeared off the streets of Manhattan, Mark Wallace has been slowly rebuilding his career as an energy market analyst and struggling to keep his family intact. But things are about to take a dangerous turn. After a terrorist attack on a Russian oil pipeline, a colleague slips Mark classified information about Saudi oil fields, then suddenly turns up dead. With his family still reeling from Kyle's disappearance, Mark takes it upon himself to learn how these seemingly disparate pieces all fit together. In a remarkable high-wire balancing act, Lee Vance has combined the intrigue of finance, the cutthroat world of energy politics, and the emotional pull of a family in crisis into a powerful, gripping thriller.
Siete a#os despu#s de la desaparici#n de su hijo, un reputado analista financiero se toma la justicia por su mano en una compleja trama petrol#fera. En los siete a#os que han transcurrido desde la desaparici#n de su hijo Kyle, Mark Wallace ha tratado de reconstruir su vida, la de su familia y su carrera como consultor de mercados energ#ticos. Pero un atentado terrorista en un oleoducto ruso est# a punto de cambiarlo todo. En sus manos ha ca#do informaci#n explosiva acerca de los recursos petrol#feros de Arabia Saud#, y pronto se ve envuelto en un peligroso juego de intereses. Cuando descubra que los secuestradores de su hijo forman parte de un ambicioso plan, se adentrar# en una lucha de enormes dimensiones por el control de la energ#a global, con la venganza como #nico objetivo. Rese#a:"Apasionante... Entretiene e invita a la reflexi#n."The Economist