Norman's EQUATION TRILOGY brings you inside the world of hostage negotiation undertaken by Dominique Fontaine on a razor sharp edge of breaking all the rules. In Book One, KENSINGTON EQUATION, Dominique Fontaine, accomplished director of the Strategic Abduction Response Team, SART, prides herself on having never failed to free a hostage unharmed. That is until early one morning when she receives a call from the kidnapper of the ten-year-old son of London’s wealthiest man. The assailant assures the beautiful director he has the edge now. He knows all her tactics and can be the one to break her perfect record. However, there’s more to lose than just her reputation as the best hostage negotiator in Europe. There’s the life of a ten-year-old boy, and worse yet, the lives of thirteen of his classmates taken captive with him at the Natural History Museum in London. Now Dominique Fontaine will have to face-off a deadly stranger, one who will conjure up an agonizing memory from her past in his bid to destroy her. __________________________________________________________________ In Book Two, the saga continues with a vengeance when EARTH’s leader abducts a wealthy Austrian banker and forces Dominique Fontaine into her worst challenge of wits and a race against time. In Vienna, she negotiates for the hostage’s release and interrogates his spouse suspecting an alliance between her and EARTH. This case brings in a drunken FBI agent from Dominique’s past. He has more on his mind than just getting in her way. She must enlist his help in a precision-timed SWAT tactic, and risks her life and the lives of innocent bystanders during a daytime ransom-hostage exchange. In a split-second timing error, the hostage is shot. EARTH’s leader races off on the Danube River, ransom in hand. FBI agents chase him across the border into Czechoslovakia, a non-extradition country. The events in Austria and London twist into a complex equation that is saturated with death, fright and hidden dangers to EARTH Equation’s fragile equal sign. In Paris, Dominique sees a man with gold teeth staring at her. When jogging, she hears a gunshot and feels burning pain as a slug of hot lead burrows into her. Dominique sees the mysterious man with gold teeth disappear into a subway station, and her white sweats turning crimson. _______________________________________________________ In Book Three, EVANESCE EQUATION, Dominique Fontaine and her protégé Yvonne Castel search for the answers to why people are disappearing from Switzerland, France and the United States. They must find out what the Greek alphabet, an Egyptian cartouche and a flute have in common. Their journey tangles them in more suspense and thrill-laced challenges to dismantle the EARTH faction and Dominique alone must unravel a conspiracy that leads all the way to the President of the United States and the very top of her government. |