The Oxenburg Woman - Living Heavy Traveling Light, #1

"Mann offers a slow-burning espionage thriller set at the intersection of high-tech power and personal vulnerability. An often-riveting exploration of power and the antiheroes in its service."  — Kirkus Reviews

Synopsis

A hardened  veteran of an obscure organization, reluctantly on vacation, drives into the Arizona desert foothills for a long-delayed celebration. Within the hour he's wounded and bleeding. A few miles away Suzanna Oxenburg plans an afternoon walk in the rain with her dog. A week previous, a million-dollar stallion vanished, the target of the perfect horse theft. Three seemingly unrelated events have converged, all earth-bound, untouched by technology, arising directly from human emotion and behavior.  Thus begins a sea change in a powerful, principled man, secure in his dominion until he's flat on his back across the path of an equally uncompromising woman.

Twenty-first century life floats on a digital current, key to every aspect of our lives.  Years of experience in data retrieval and manipulation have given the author an appreciation for the depth of the information ocean and complexity of its connections. No digital secret is safe, no funds are untraceable, few transgressions unrecorded; all vulnerable to those with resources and motivation to unearth them. Mercenary espionage is profitable because data in knowing hands can right wrongs, reverse fortune, and undermine the powerful.

There is an equally important and universal current in our lives; the perennial ebb and flow of human interaction and connection. Passion, integrity, fearlessness, faith – recognized and reflected, they pierce us, heal us and alter our world.

The Oxenburg Woman is Book 1 in VB Mann's series Living Heavy, Traveling Light.  Follow the author and the series on Goodreads.

"A smart who-can-you-trust? thriller of a woman finding a wounded man in the desert."  — BookLife Reviews.