title: Protecting David-Alex's Story
author: Audette, Terence
description: Mark and David’s teenage son, Alex falls in love with Tommy, the boy that lives next door, but when Tommy’s father begins to suspect what’s happening he gets into a fight with Mark and breaks the young couple up.Then, almost two years later, just as Alex has gotten over that breakup he starts college at Stanford and falls in love with Larry, his new roommate.  This time it feels like he’s met his forever love.But years before, David turned down a business offer from a mobster, and in an effort to get pay-back the mobster kidnaps Alex and holds him for $40 million.  The story is fast-paced and moves from Palo Alto to Denver to Washington DC to Salzburg as David wields his international organization to destroy the bad guys.