Description:
STRIKE PRICE introduces readers to Native American/First Nations culture and power. This book is unique as the first-ever fictional use of the Cherokee language and syllabary. The syllabary font is illustrated via matrix and in clues.
Brief description: L. A. Starks is the author of the Lynn Dayton thriller series and an energy investor. 13 DAYS: THE PYTHAGORAS CONSPIRACY, Lynn Dayton Thriller #1, received 5-star ratings. STRIKE PRICE, the second, is also 5-star-rated by reviewers and won the Texas Association of Authors' 1st Place Award for best mystery/thriller. Starks was born in Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in Oklahoma, and earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Tulane University and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. In her day job, she is an energy business veteran experienced in engineering (during which she co-authored a U.S. patent), finance, and marketing who writes about energy analysis and investment as a paid contributor to two Seeking Alpha platforms. Starks has also written and published five short stories and numerous non-fiction articles. She's appeared at over 150 book marketing events and is active on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Goodreads, with nearly the maximum of 5000 Goodreads friends. Additionally, she served as investment oversight chair and as treasurer of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. Her favorite destination is wherever an airplane will take her. She has run seventeen half-marathons. Books website: https: //lastarksbooks.com/
Review Quotes:
"Ms. Starks has an eye for detail and richly paints a picture of the Oklahoma landscape and its people. The insight given through the killers mind is especially riveting, as the reader will be far into the story before everything falls together and the killer is unmasked."--Literary R&R
5 Stars. "Riveting"--Stephen Boiko, Goodreads
"dialogue is quick and punchy . . . Starks handles the pacing and suspense masterfully . . a thrilling conclusion . . . a determined heroine, a high body count and a mysterious villain."--Kirkus Indie Reviews
5 Stars. "L.A. Starks gets the smell and noise of the petroleum industry just right as oil company executive Lynn Dayton faces off with the seven deadly sins: pride, lying tongues, hands that shed innocent blood, hearts that devise wicked plots, feet that run to ruin, deceitful witnesses, and those who sow discord. You'll find yourself turning the pages faster and faster as Lynn's hell-on-wheels race to end a chain of murders takes her to the brink of her own death and a national catastrophe. Plan on not sleeping tonight."--James Gary Vineyard, author of The Grave On Peckerwood Hill
"Fascinating! Lynn Dayton faces dangerous situations, professional killers, and world terrorists . . . We learn, while being thrilled."--Alain Bensoussan, PhD, risk analysis chair/distinguished professor at University of Texas at Dallas; City University of Hong Kong; Ajou University, South Korea
5 Stars. "In Strike Price, L.A. Starks once again establishes herself as a master of the thriller genre. Lynn Dayton, a self-made woman in the oil industry, fights to save herself and others as she attempts to stop a plot to sabotage an oil pipeline and storage depot, and learn the identity of those who are murdering bidders for one of her company's refineries. Fast-paced and convincingly choreographed, Starks' novel presents a spot-on depiction of today's oil business that grips and scares and offers the reader plenty to think about."--Richard Holcroft, author of Patriot's Blood
5 Stars. "Strike Price is set in places that I know well! The non-stop connections of people, places and themes to each other kept me reading, as I was curious to see what secrets the author has to tell that I should know! Of course living in many of the same US oil company towns where so much of this novel is set has given me an acquaintance with the lifestyles portrayed here... It is quite interesting to see such familiar locales turned into a setting for drama, adventure, and all sorts of difficulties for various characters in the book. The author's descriptions of the Osage countryside, the Tulsa bungalows, the casinos, the oil company employees and their travels all over the world are quite apt and I can picture the people easily! The author has knit together the early twentieth century history of oil-rich Oklahoma with the more recent history of the world oil industry into a very interesting puzzle that is very satisfying!" -rc, Amazon