New Action-Packed Legal Thriller Combines High Seas Intrigue with Mystery, Courtroom Drama, Politics and Philosophy
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – The Tortoise Shell Game is a thought-provoking, white-knuckle ride which begins off the coast of Central America where the sinking of a tuna boat, the Sea Diva, is shrouded in mystery, its crew missing. The fast-moving plot continues through to the courtroom as lawyer Anthony Darren agrees to represent the boat's owner, only to be blindsided when the case takes an unexpected and shocking turn.
The Tortoise Shell Game has been acclaimed by Pulitzer Prize nominated former Boston Globe correspondent Gary S. Chafetz, author of The Lost Army, who calls it, “Masterful storytelling! An action-packed thriller, an electrifying read.”
Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 100 Hall of Fame Reviewer says “V Frank Asaro’s skilled pen has created a mystery thriller with more twists and turns than a complex carnival ride.”
This Pulitzer-entry of 2015, The Tortoise Shell Game is a bone-chilling adventure covering such topics as love, politics, economics, the U.S. Constitution, diplomacy and world affairs, and even the environment. It is certain to be enjoyed by all lovers of suspense novels, as well as by lawyers and students of the law and thinkers in general—or by those just seeking pure entertainment.
Author V Frank Asaro explains how he wove his personal philosophy, Co-opetition throughout the plot. “The book is really about finding the sweet spot between competing and cooperation as a fresh way to avoid polarization and to solve problems,” says Asaro. “Where to find or place the asymmetric balance on the scale is the question the combatants struggle to discover. The quest becomes finding the best point of synthesis between competition and cooperation and is usually found through intuition and nature and by applying rational thought.”
A lawyer for 50 years, Asaro is credited as being a founder of the philosophy of co-opetition which is now used widely in business and Game Theory. In 2015 Wikipedia recognized Asaro as applying the theory universally.
The Tortoise Shell Game (ISBN: 978-1-940784-49-6, Bettie Youngs Books, 2015, 372 pages, is available in Paperback $25.95 and Kindle $5.99 via Amazon and from Barnes&Noble in paperback and Nook Book)
About V Frank Asaro
V Frank Asaro is a lawyer, musician, composer, inventor and theorist who also authored the non-fiction book A Primal Wisdom 2d. – Nature’s Unification of Cooperation and Competition published in 2015. He began developing the theory of co-opetition not long after he was selected out of law school as lawyer-clerk to the California District Courts of Appeal. He went on to receive the highest-category law career peer review, Pre-eminent Martindale Hubbell rating, and appeared in Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in the World. Engaged in litigation most of his career, he honed skills proving or disproving facts and stories--a handy talent for a novelist. Moreover as a patent holder, he shows a creative knack. This he calls upon in weaving this most exciting tale of The Tortoise Shell Game, a fiction work in Admiralty--one of his fields.
Selections From
The Tortoise Shell Game
· “And now we’re competing against foreign fisheries whose governments subsidize their boats – sometimes with money our government loans them –- money from taxes we pay, money my government will never get back!” Joe suddenly rose to his feet, eyes ablaze. “They’re killing the American tuna industry with America’s help!”
· Woods escorted Anthony into the Grand Jury room, where twenty or so average-looking men and women of various races sat in neat rows and looked stoically at him. To Anthony the people looked as though they were sitting in an adult education class and their teacher was escorting in a visiting professor.
· As though tethered to a thousand rising helium balloons, Anthony felt weight lifting off him.
· Now it begins, Anthony thought: the court procedures where movements and progress were as strictly defined as in a baseball game or complicated dance.
· With a wary glance at the guards, Anthony said that any government had to find a way to welcome and embrace ex-cons who truly wanted to rejoin the team and behave as responsible citizens. “There’s no cooperative balance if ex-cons and society continue to regard each other as enemies,” he said. “The main reason the same people tend to keep recycling through a prison system is that the moment they get out they start fighting with a society they’re programmed to regard as their adversary but in nature they should be teammates.”
· “By my definition, competition is akin to chaos/separation/repulsion; it’s something taken away from something else; it’s separation and division. You could say it’s similar to dissonance. On the other hand, cooperation is a form of giving, akin to uniting. It’s order/attraction. It unites and combines …. It is consonance.”
From the estuary they entered an arena of small islands, hundreds of them; some with beaches of white sand, others of shell, others of black sand or gravel or rock. All were crowned with thick foliage and bustling with animals. As the boat turned through them, hugging first one shore after another, flocks of startled gulls and pelicans flapped away over the water and monkeys jumped comically from springing branches.
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