Click Fraud @ Sonic Ping
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The woman chained to the post in the center of the stage looked lost. She was dressed in a flimsy harem costume that did nothing to conceal her body from the hundreds of prying eyes that devoured every exposed inch. The faint light of self-awareness still visible in her heavily drugged eyes made it plain that she was terrified. That outpouring of fear along with her lack of clothing captured the attention and animal desire of every man in the room, slave buyers from all over the world. Their haze of cigar smoke, testosterone and just plain raw lust was so thick I would have needed fog lights to find my way to the bathroom. I waited for the auction to start and tried not to breathe the toxic atmosphere.
If she had been a complete stranger I might have been able to turn my head and mind away from what was happening, but if she had been a stranger I wouldn’t have been sitting here. I was at this slave market in a city halfway around the world because that woman was my friend and the only way to insure that she didn’t live out the rest of her life as a concubine in some sheik’s harem was for me to finish as the highest bidder.
When the auctioneer stepped forward to start the bidding my heartbeat went up another thirty beats a minute. I glanced at my friend Rodger and then back at the petrified creature on the stage. Just for a second my mind flashed back to the path that brought us here. It had been less than a week ago when...
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About the Book
This is the first book in the Daryl Morgan and Rodger Truscott series. It is a fast-paced thriller with tech overtones. Daryl is a nice guy who likes helping people. His partner Rodger, a former Seal, is a computer whiz who also happens to be deadly with his hands and any kind of weapon. In this opening book they find that a click fraud scheme at Sonic Ping (a Google competitor) leads them to a string of women who have been sold into slavery, multiple murders and internet fraud. When their friend Maddy is sold they follow the trail to Casablanca and Marrakesh where they find her on the block in a slave market. Their hope is to buy her back, but they are outbid. They only succeed in rescuing her with the help of the Wazir of Marrakesh. In putting an end to that market, they discover that the key to unraveling the click fraud scheme is Judy Green, an undercover FBI agent, who is presumed dead but who has also been kidnapped and sold to a sheik in Tripoli. Rescuing her involves help from Prince Hakeem, the Wazir’s son, and a beautiful Arabic mercenary who goes by the code name “Poison”. The rescue goes badly, and they are forced to fight their way out of the sheik’s palace and back to the airport. They use the Wazir’s jet to escape, narrowly evading being shot down by a Libyan fighter jet. Along the way Daryl and Rodger are helped by a host of unusual characters. The sultry Selma, part owner of the local gentleman’s club, Achmed Bakam al Saadin, the Wazir of Marrakesh, his son Prince Hakeem, the stunning and dangerous Arabian female mercenary “Poison” and the gargantuan bodyguard Tiny. Villains are everywhere: the whiz kid founder of the search engine company, corrupt cops, Russian mobsters and Middle Eastern oil tzars.
About the Author
Orlando Stephenson and his wife have traveled to over a hundred countries, which has provided inspiration for the international settings in his novels. They live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Click Fraud @ Sonic Ping is the first book in a series.