Bøker av Tom Golden

An unmoving sun over a land where time stands still. Embittered gods, clutching the last threads of power. A desperate search for mankind's only hope. When disgraced master of antiquities Cyprian Fontaine is asked to join an expedition to find a relic that could save his collapsing civilization, he sees his chance at redemption. But the journey will not be an easy one.The expedition must pass through the cratered remains of the old kingdom, baking beneath the eternally static sun, and into the squalid ruins of the fallen capital city, locked in perpetual night. From wind-scoured mountain peaks to wastelands of ash, they will face sadistic cannibals, nightmarish specters of the dead, and dissension in their own ranks, all to find the broken pieces of a divine blade that, once restored, will grant access to a realm beyond their decaying world.But hoarding the shards of this blade are monstrous gods, the survivors of a cosmic war that left the world's creator dead and the natural order broken. And guiding them to these hidden deities is an enigmatic wanderer from the wastes, a badlander who promises to be Cyprian's salvation... or his downfall.

He's the best in the business when it comes to exposing corporate fraud and corruption, but a fatal failure in his past haunts him.Fifteen years later Sam Halloran is a partner at one of the largest accounting and auditing firms in the world. By any measurement, he has made it to the top of his profession. Yet he still feels responsible for the murder of someone helping him expose a massive leasing scam.So when a Fortune 500 client asks him to dig into allegations from a whistleblower involving fraud and the mistreatment of young women in Guatemala, the financial investigator leaps at the chance for redemption although it means confronting a ruthless, homicidal monster.Determined to bring the fiend to justice, Sam is horrified when he places his star female financial investigator in the twisted killer's clutches. And with virtually everyone in the country under the kingpin's thumb, the forensic accountant's quest for redemption goes horribly awry.Can Sam take on a Central American tyrant without causing deadly collateral damage?One Honest Soul is book 2 of the exhilarating Sam Halloran thriller series and inspired by a true story. If you like no-nonsense heroes, ripped-from-the-headlines crimes, and stories that pull no punches, then you'll love Tom Golden's latest fast-paced adventure.Buy One Honest Soul to balance the books of justice today!Back Cover DescriptionFIFTEEN YEARS AGO, SAM HALLORAN made a mistake."Someone I cared for was murdered; someone I loved was lost."He hasn't been the same since, even though he'd become immensely successful as a partner at Hamilton Pierce and the best in the business at what he does-Forensic Accounting Investigation. But he would be tested again.The anonymous letter writer told of horrors that El Jefe, Javier Mendoza, engaged in on a routine basis in running the plant. To Sam, it all seemed like another executive stealing from his employer, taking advantage of others, just because he could.But Javier Mendoza would prove to be different. He ran the largest and most profitable distillery in the world for a titan of the consumer products industry. That was how corporate felt about him... but in Palencia, Guatemala he was much more than that-powerful, politically connected, ruthless... some would say, a monster, especially the women who labored in his plant.Would Sam's investigative team become additional victims consumed by Mendoza's network of crime? Would Sam, again, miss the signs-like he did fifteen years ago?

The stories in this book are all short. Some of them are pretty funny, some awfully serious, some upbeat and adventurous, while still others are quite sad. There's humor, romance, heartbreak, suspense, and even some career advice. You'll laugh and you might even cry, but most of all, you'll be thoroughly ENTERTAINED. Once you start reading RAMBLINGS, you won't want to put it down. Included are the following:Growing up in Minnesota and surviving the cold as well as an older brother Pursuing a first love in the seventh grade (eventually marrying her despite her father's objection) Crazy and even dangerous adventures with his brother, Jerry (when he said, "Watch this," there was big trouble ahead). YIKES! Hot rods and custom cars (and the local police that hated them) Opening a burger, fries, and malt shop restaurant (and dealing with the Godfather) Being trapped on a South Dakota ski lift in a raging rain and lightning storm with a new bride. Raising three sons, lake living, and the garage-band phase A climb to success in the newspaper industry from rookie twenty-year-old classified advertising sales rep to vice president and director