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In my law enforcement career, I dealt with scams and the con artists who work them. I reveal their schemes and the techniques of crimes of persuasion on these pages.
One such scheme is featured in my mystery novel, Switcheroo. The images above are of key locales in the novel: the San Francisco waterfront and a map showing the location of the once magnificent Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite, now flooded to supply fresh water to San Francisco and the Bay Area.
SWITCHEROO -- 2008 EPIE finalist.
The Story...
In my law enforcement career, I dealt with scams and the con artists who work them. I reveal their schemes and the techniques of crimes of persuasion on these pages.
One such scheme is featured in my mystery novel, Switcheroo. The images above are of key locales in the novel: the San Francisco waterfront and a map showing the location of the once magnificent Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite, now flooded to supply fresh water to San Francisco and the Bay Area.
SWITCHEROO -- 2008 EPIE finalist.
The Story...
Nick Oliver is a top-notch stock analyst in San Francisco. This morning, he's in a cozy café with a cup of French Roast. So living the good life is he?
Not Really ...
Fired from his job unexpectedly, the coffee in his cup is turning cold while he ponders his future. But his muse is interrupted when a stranger appears at his table. She introduces herself as Erin, the daughter of Dan Archer. She tells Nick that days before her father's recent death, he made a cryptic reference to Nick.
Nick has no idea who Dan Archer is. But at Erin's insistence of a link between her father and himself, Nick reluctantly agrees to look into the possibility.
And Nick thought he had problems before meeting Erin Archer.
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