The garden of betrayal
By: Lee Vance
Publisher: Corvus
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781848875807; 9781848875784
Subjects: Kidnapping; Missing children; Conspiracies; Corrupt practises; Petroleum industry and trade; Life change events; Fiction
Description: "Manhattan, 2002: Mark Wallace has it all - he's married to Claire, the love of his life; they have two bright, beautiful children, and his is a high-powered Wall Street job. Until one night while on a neighbourhood errand by himself, his twelve-year-old son, Kyle, vanishes, brutally snatched off the streets of New York. Seven years later, Kyle has never been found. The loss, guilt, and mystery surrounding their son's disappearance have almost destroyed the Wallaces' marriage, leaving their daughter alienated and distant... Now, on the same day that a natural gas pipeline in remote western Russia is blown up by suspected terrorists, a new lead opens in Kyle's case. When the very next day a colleague slips Mark classified information on Saudi oil production and then suddenly turns up dead, apparently a suicide, it remains for Mark, with the help of his technophile daughter and still-grieving wife, to find the sinister connections among everything that's going on."--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Energy analyst Mark Wallace is a Wall Street legend, but he may know too much. A new Russian pipeline poised to revolutionize the oil industry has just exploded; title: and Mark can prove it was no accident. Seven years ago, Marks son was kidnapped. His family was ripped apart by grief, but with no motive and no body, the police were at a loss. Today, Mark receives a lead for the very first time. Is it a coincidence? Or is his sons disappearance linked to the attack on the pipeline? Frantically searching for a link between an incipient energy war and his familys tragedy, Mark begins to unearth a vast conspiracy. With the help of his computer-hacker daughter and still-grieving wife, he struggles to learn what happened to his son, and to identify the plotters before its too late.