p.m.terrell
Knew she wanted to be a novelist in the fourth grade, when she was presented an award for writing. She finished her first full-length novel at the age of fifteen, a suspense thriller entitled The Merging.
She found herself on the ground floor of a mushrooming industry, when while working for a subsidiary of IBM the first Apple computers rolled off the production lines. She has three computer how-to books to her credit; Creating the Perfect Database; The Dynamics of WordPerfect; The Dynamics of Reflex. She also wrote a series of columns for The Washington Business Advisor, The Washington Post, and The Washington Business Journal, among others.
“I always have admired strong women,” p.m.terrell admits. “I think it came from listening to my father tell us stories about our ancestry, and all the strong women in our family. One ancestor, Paralee Drake, was left at home during the Civil War when her husband joined the Confederate Army. When a group of Union soldiers tried to steal the hams from the smokehouse, she stood in the doorway with her shotgun, and told them those hams were all she had to feed her seven children, and they would get to them over her dead body. Legend has it, they left her, her children and the hams alone.”
It's the kind of guts the lead in KickBack would admire.
By the time Sheila Carpenter graduated from Vanderbilt University, she’d already established a reputation as a computer whiz kid. So it was no surprise when she was hired by one of the most prestigious computer-consulting firms in the country and transferred to its headquarters in Washington, DC.
But soon Sheila’s dream job spirals out of control when she’s instructed to write a program designed to cover up illegal activities. Now she’s the only one who knows a truth so devastating that it could bring down an entire industry.
The China Conspiracy ISBN: 0972818634 - 2003 Drake Valley Press
Kit Olsen's biggest problem is juggling her increasing workload as a programmer/
analyst for the CIA with the duties of a wife and mother. Then two coworkers are abducted and murdered, and her son Tim is kidnapped. In an effort to ransom her son, she is swept into an underworld of political intrigue and double-crosses, where nothing is as it appears.
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