Power
Play is the second book of the Uncommon Stock trilogy by Eliot
Peper. My biggest problem with this series is that I had too little time to
read the three books straight through. I promise that you’ll want to do just
that. In praising Peper’s plot and character development, I probably neglected
to talk about his descriptive skills. I’ll give you an example. At the start of
the second book as he depicts Mara Winkle’s entrance to an event at Burning
Man, he wrote, “Sweat poured down her body inside the one-piece olive flight
suit, zipper midway down for fresh air and the promise of cleavage. Her
multicolored chemiluminescent rings and bracelets traced patterns through the
air as her arms and hands followed the trumpet’s descending scale. It felt good
to not be thinking for a change.”
This book develops the attempts by Lars to use his firm
Maelstrom to control the use of Mozaik’s powerful financial software. Mara and
James learned too late that Lars’ intentions were nefarious. Bodies began to
disappear, and they soon learned that he was a money launderer who moved
billions of dollars around the globe on behalf of some very bad people. Lars
really was in league with dirty bankers, not someone who wanted to bring them
down.
I don’t want to say more about the plot – just read this
one, and then you’ll be ready for the conclusion of the trilogy.
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