Tom Spears

I believe the electronic version of Incentivize which I downloaded was an advance readers’ copy. There were 47 typographical, tense, grammatical, and other small mistakes, which I hope will be edited out, for the story itself was a good one.

Julia McCoy, an auditor for her company headquartered in the States, is sent to a subsidiary in Ethiopia to make her report. Sensing something amiss, she confronts the president, Rich Copeland, too boldly for her future good. Protecting his interests, Rich arranges for her abduction and murder. Amid double dealings with enemies of enemies, political and military upheaval, and daily peril, this story plays out in a vividly described African setting.

With insight into the corporate world, and an obvious love for the people and place of Ethiopia, Tom Spears has thrown all his sticks into the bonfire and created an explosion of action in a corporate thriller worthy of the name.… (mehr)