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Balance of Powers
Major Henry Powers, USMC Afghanistan vet, meets Jeanine. Like Henry's sister, Jeanine has lost her house to the system that sold her a crooked mortgage. Together, the pair travel in search of the banksters, and a trail of corpses shows where they've been. Meanwhile, in NYC, reporter Kendra Powers discovers that Henry is out for blood at the highest level. Can she stop him in time? Balance of Powers explores the depths of revenge, and the healing power of love, as he races to outrun the law, righting the wrongs done in the name of greed.
163 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2015
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About the author
Hugh Ashton
67 books64 followersHugh Ashton was born in the UK in 1956. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he worked in a variety of jobs, including security guard, publisher's assistant, and running an independent record label, before coming to rest in the field of information technology, where he assisted perplexed users of computers and wrote explanations to guide them through the problems they encountered.
A long-standing interest in Japan led him to emigrate to that country in 1988; writing instruction manuals for a variety of consumer products, assisting with IT-related projects at banks and financial institutions, and researching and writing industry reports on the Japanese and Asian financial industries, and writing promotional material for international business publications.
He has recently returned to the UK, and now lives in the cathedral city of Lichfield with his wife, Yoshiko.
He has recently published many volumes of highly-acclaimed Sherlock Holmes pastiches (the Deed Box and Dispatch-box series) with Inknbeans Press of California, with some reviewers hailing him as the re-incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In addition, the list of his thrillers currently includes: At the Sharpe End, featuring an expatriate consultant living in Tokyo, Kenneth Sharpe, who finds himself thrust into a world of violence and high finance; Leo's Luck, a story of rock 'n' roll, crime, romance, and the paranormal; and Balance of Powers, set against the backdrop of the subprime mortgage crisis.
His historical works include: Beneath Gray Skies, an alternative history in which the American Civil War was never fought; Red Wheels Turning, set in an alternative Russia of 1917; and The Untime and The Untijme Revisited, Verne-ian 19th-century steampunk science fiction novels.
Children's books include the Sherlock Ferret series about the world's cutest detective, delightfully illustrated by Andy Boerger.
The collection of short stories Tales of Old Japanese describes some of the endearing characteristics of today's "silver generation" of Japan.
A long-standing interest in Japan led him to emigrate to that country in 1988; writing instruction manuals for a variety of consumer products, assisting with IT-related projects at banks and financial institutions, and researching and writing industry reports on the Japanese and Asian financial industries, and writing promotional material for international business publications.
He has recently returned to the UK, and now lives in the cathedral city of Lichfield with his wife, Yoshiko.
He has recently published many volumes of highly-acclaimed Sherlock Holmes pastiches (the Deed Box and Dispatch-box series) with Inknbeans Press of California, with some reviewers hailing him as the re-incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In addition, the list of his thrillers currently includes: At the Sharpe End, featuring an expatriate consultant living in Tokyo, Kenneth Sharpe, who finds himself thrust into a world of violence and high finance; Leo's Luck, a story of rock 'n' roll, crime, romance, and the paranormal; and Balance of Powers, set against the backdrop of the subprime mortgage crisis.
His historical works include: Beneath Gray Skies, an alternative history in which the American Civil War was never fought; Red Wheels Turning, set in an alternative Russia of 1917; and The Untime and The Untijme Revisited, Verne-ian 19th-century steampunk science fiction novels.
Children's books include the Sherlock Ferret series about the world's cutest detective, delightfully illustrated by Andy Boerger.
The collection of short stories Tales of Old Japanese describes some of the endearing characteristics of today's "silver generation" of Japan.
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December 5, 2015
Pulp fiction, in the sense of being a violent page-turner. Pulp Fiction, in the sense that like a Tarantino film, the bad guys are truly deserving of the violence meted out to them. Also like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, the narrative starts at the end and circles back around.
January 27, 2019
2008-18 recession causes imbued in a scary (and realistic) plot. I wondered what caused the financial disaster & am grateful to H.A. for supplying info on “how to curb the next one.” Profanity - lots & LGBA content. Highly Recommended because forewarned is forearmed...better that than losing one’s home (fast forward thru the sex scenes if they’re offensive. I agree they were unnecessary).
Just FYI — if you’re reading instead of TTS, allow 2 pages for sex scenes... that’ll do most often and catch up on the plot is easier than fast forwarding to the next chapter. If it requires more than 2 pages, you’re reading the wrong authors. 🤫 🙃
Just FYI — if you’re reading instead of TTS, allow 2 pages for sex scenes... that’ll do most often and catch up on the plot is easier than fast forwarding to the next chapter. If it requires more than 2 pages, you’re reading the wrong authors. 🤫 🙃
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