Death Squad by Roy Lewis

Death Squad by Roy Lewis

San Francisco--the infamous City by the Bay. There are dark elements at work, and it's not as easy as splitting the world into groups of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys. Lines are being crossed, and the rules don't always count.

Matt Vaughn, former police officer, turned upscale San Francisco Private Investigator has a problem. He finds himself unwillingly but inescapably in the employ of The Russian, who has kidnapped Matt's estranged wife and is holding her hostage until a stolen artifact is recovered. As Matt works to solve the mystery, he finds things aren't exactly what they seem, and now he doesn't know whom to trust.

To complicate matters, tough, ambitious Journalist, Charlie Cooper, finds herself unwittingly entangled in the drama and mystery of greedy, power-hungry entities. Charlie becomes torn between her duty to report on transpiring events and keeping her word to Matt Vaughn as he tries to solve the mystery.

Robert Lewis is the UK expert on two IEC working groups defining new standards for industrial control software, covering distributed control systems (IEC 61499) and PLCs (IEC 61131). One of his particular fields of interest is the application of graphical programming techniques to improve the quality and understanding of industrial control software. He has been involved in the development of software for industrial control applications for over 15 years and recently has been working in the field of design and verification of safety critical systems. He is also the author of Programming industrial control systems IEC 1131-3 (IEE, revised edition, 1998). Robert Lewis holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a MSc in Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the IEE and is currently Senior Consultant with Fluor Global Services.