β Scribed by Rick Riordan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Tres Navarre, private eye and sometimes English professor, is hoping for a
laid-back working vacation when he accepts a teaching gig at the University of
Texas at Austin, even if it means shacking up for six weeks with his big brother
Garrett, who calls Austin home.
Garrett Navarre - computer programmer
extraordinaire, Jimmy Buffett fanatic, and all-around eccentric - is hoping to
retire a multimillionaire thanks to a high-tech start-up company he and two
buddies have launched. Garrett has bet everything from his career to the Navarre
family ranch that the company will stay alive long enough to make a public stock
offering, allowing him to ride the Austin high-tech boom right into the saddle
of luxury.
Both Tres's and Garrett's hopes are shattered with a single
gunshot. Garrett's oldest friend and business partner ends up murdered at his
lakefront home - and Garrett is the only suspect.
As Tres delves into
Garrett's bizarre world to find the truth behind the murder, he comes
face-to-face with the damaged relationships, violent lives, and billion-dollar
schemes of a brave new high-tech world.
Among the players: a corporate
takeover artist with a trail of broken enemies in his wake and an overzealous
desire to make Garrett's company his own; the victim's wife, a hard-edged beauty
haunted by three generations of family failure; and the head of an oil-rich clan
with more power than morals and enough skeletons in the closet to man a ghost
ship. Connecting them all - the beautiful waters of Lake Travis and an
unspeakable evil that lies within its depths.
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