USS Alcatraz

Author Philip Robinson blends reality with a dose of the outlandish in this fast-paced thriller: Kraken Corporation is too big to failor control. Spreading its tentacles into every profit centre around the globeoil, gold, diamondsit takes what it wants and leaves behind a path of death and destruction. When Emma Baine, heir to Kraken, publicly announces her intention to end the corporations history of profiteering, murder, and monopoly, a bomb explodes on the rostrum, killing her instantly. To her brother Carson, its the perfect punch line to Emmas childish statement. He took out his sister, and now hes going to take over the firm. Using Krakens private security force, a mercenary army that rolls over every obstacle to profitability, and the USS Alcatraz, an old Russian nuclear sub retrofitted into a gargantuan underwater prison, Carson imprisons everyone he perceives as an enemywhile the highest figures in government turn a blind eye. But theres one obstacle Carson cant grind under his heel: an ex-Marine named Vaughan. As Emmas former lover and bodyguard, Vaughn is tough, smartand very angry.