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Chase Malone #4
Chasing Dirt
Finally, a solution to end hunger and poverty.
Abundant food for the world’s population is a reality.
There’s just one catch, it will you cost you everything.
Chase Malone, a super-wealthy engineer, and Wen Sung, a lethal agent, fight to stay ahead of a corporate hit squad while mysterious pursuers continually thwart their efforts to prevent a complete takeover of the world’s food supply. They have less than twenty-four hours before it’s too late.
Ending world hunger might just kill you.
Abundant food for the world’s population is a reality.
There’s just one catch, it will you cost you everything.
Chase Malone, a super-wealthy engineer, and Wen Sung, a lethal agent, fight to stay ahead of a corporate hit squad while mysterious pursuers continually thwart their efforts to prevent a complete takeover of the world’s food supply. They have less than twenty-four hours before it’s too late.
Ending world hunger might just kill you.
308 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 12, 2019
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About the author
Brandt Legg
45 books374 followersUSA TODAY Bestselling Author Brandt Legg uses his unusual real life experiences to create page-turning novels. He’s traveled with CIA agents, dined with senators and congressmen, mingled with astronauts, chatted with governors and presidential candidates, had a private conversation with a Secretary of Defense he still doesn’t like to talk about, hung out with Oscar and Grammy winners, had drinks at the State Department, been pursued by tabloid reporters, and spent a birthday at the White House by invitation from the President of the United States.
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
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August 11, 2023
Dirt does not enjoy immunity
Gravecon so reflects Monsanto and their quest to control the world food source by controlling the cu!tivation of corn since it is the most common food source. By modifying the genetic makeup of corn the world would become dependent on Monsanto for seed and thus the food supply would be controlled by a corporate just like in your thriller which left me enthralled.
Gravecon so reflects Monsanto and their quest to control the world food source by controlling the cu!tivation of corn since it is the most common food source. By modifying the genetic makeup of corn the world would become dependent on Monsanto for seed and thus the food supply would be controlled by a corporate just like in your thriller which left me enthralled.
June 14, 2022
Non stop action in this one, from one page to the next, one country to the next and on it goes. Here again, we are subjected to Chases's dry sense of humour, even when faced with dangerous situations. Another wonderful read - who would have thought "dirt" could be at the centre of a worldwide situation.
November 18, 2021
Love the different storyline
Well I love how Brandt can find so many very different storylines and turn them into very exciting not able to put down books!!! These are books that you really need to read.
Well I love how Brandt can find so many very different storylines and turn them into very exciting not able to put down books!!! These are books that you really need to read.
July 7, 2020
Fun and quick moving
February 15, 2021
Good plot
The other books in the series are better especially Risk and Life
Chase and Wen deserve a break and some time off
The other books in the series are better especially Risk and Life
Chase and Wen deserve a break and some time off
June 20, 2023
This book moved so fast I could hardly put it down. The characters are likeable and a pleasure to read about. I rate it 5 stars.
May 10, 2025
What people will do to corner the food market in developing countries by using extreme deadly chemicals.
December 15, 2019
‘More often than not, they didn’t know who was after them’
One of the reasons Pacific Northwest author Brandt Legg has been so successful in his writing and publishing and selling his books is his magisterial management of his website. From his biographical data we learn that he is ‘a former child prodigy who turned a hobby into a multi-million dollar empire. At eight, Brandt's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business. National media dubbed him the Teen Tycoon; but by the time he reached his twenties, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties, lost his entire fortune . . . and ended up serving time in federal prison for financial improprieties.’ Or as Brandt shares, ‘Twenty-five years ago, sitting in a hot, humid federal prison cell in Virginia, I first dreamed of being not just a writer, but a writer who could earn a living, support a family and keep writing. But I had dropped out of high school, having only completed tenth grade English. As I sat on that metal cot, penniless and heavily in debt, with almost a year left on my sentence, it seemed an impossible dream. Still, for more than two decades, while doing everything but writing, I somehow kept the dream alive. Amazon's KDP changed everything.’ One year later he began anew in retail and real estate. In the more than two decades since, his life adventures have led him through magazine publishing, a newspaper column, photography, FM radio, CD production and concert promotion.’ He is also a gifted landscape photographer.
CHASING DIRT is another fine episode of the Chase Wen Thrillers, a series that follows Brandt’s chosen genre of Techno thrillers. The potency of his skillful writing is evident from the first page of this fine novel: ‘September in Paris…Chase Malone, once a celebrated tech billionaire, stood in the stale air of the closed space, wishing he were someplace else…He had recently become part of an underground movement known as “The Cause,” or to those who understood its mission more intimately, “W.O.L.F.” And with that entry we are off on another exciting adventure.
The plot – ‘Finally, a solution to world hunger and poverty. There’s just one catch, it will cost everything. A billionaire fugitive and a disavowed spy fight to stay ahead of a corporate hit squad, while mysterious pursuers continually thwart their efforts to prevent a complete takeover of the world’s food supply. In less than twenty-four hours, it will be too late. Ending world hunger just might kill you.’
This is yet another fine thriller novel by Brandt Legg, fast becoming one of the more important writers in the thriller genre. Recommended.
One of the reasons Pacific Northwest author Brandt Legg has been so successful in his writing and publishing and selling his books is his magisterial management of his website. From his biographical data we learn that he is ‘a former child prodigy who turned a hobby into a multi-million dollar empire. At eight, Brandt's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business. National media dubbed him the Teen Tycoon; but by the time he reached his twenties, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties, lost his entire fortune . . . and ended up serving time in federal prison for financial improprieties.’ Or as Brandt shares, ‘Twenty-five years ago, sitting in a hot, humid federal prison cell in Virginia, I first dreamed of being not just a writer, but a writer who could earn a living, support a family and keep writing. But I had dropped out of high school, having only completed tenth grade English. As I sat on that metal cot, penniless and heavily in debt, with almost a year left on my sentence, it seemed an impossible dream. Still, for more than two decades, while doing everything but writing, I somehow kept the dream alive. Amazon's KDP changed everything.’ One year later he began anew in retail and real estate. In the more than two decades since, his life adventures have led him through magazine publishing, a newspaper column, photography, FM radio, CD production and concert promotion.’ He is also a gifted landscape photographer.
CHASING DIRT is another fine episode of the Chase Wen Thrillers, a series that follows Brandt’s chosen genre of Techno thrillers. The potency of his skillful writing is evident from the first page of this fine novel: ‘September in Paris…Chase Malone, once a celebrated tech billionaire, stood in the stale air of the closed space, wishing he were someplace else…He had recently become part of an underground movement known as “The Cause,” or to those who understood its mission more intimately, “W.O.L.F.” And with that entry we are off on another exciting adventure.
The plot – ‘Finally, a solution to world hunger and poverty. There’s just one catch, it will cost everything. A billionaire fugitive and a disavowed spy fight to stay ahead of a corporate hit squad, while mysterious pursuers continually thwart their efforts to prevent a complete takeover of the world’s food supply. In less than twenty-four hours, it will be too late. Ending world hunger just might kill you.’
This is yet another fine thriller novel by Brandt Legg, fast becoming one of the more important writers in the thriller genre. Recommended.
December 20, 2019
Chase Malone, once a tech billionaire has joined WOLF, an underground movement, at the urging of his girlfriend, Wen Sung, a former spy for the Chinese intelligence service. The money he delivers to the movement would be used to fund its operations, such as protecting whistleblowers. Still, he is apprehensive about The Cause, thinking the movement is too radical. “All revolutionaries are dangerous,” he says, only to realize that “it depends on which side you’re on—the status quo, or the change.”
Even more dangerous are the mysterious plans, seemingly designed to stop world hunger, of Gavarons seventy-three-years old CEO, Lars Krauss. He warns Chase, “You are a weak, little man. Don’t get in my way.” Which as you can guess is exactly what is going to happen.
Brandt Legg presents a fast paced thriller with riveting chase sequences. Highly recommended. Five stars.
Even more dangerous are the mysterious plans, seemingly designed to stop world hunger, of Gavarons seventy-three-years old CEO, Lars Krauss. He warns Chase, “You are a weak, little man. Don’t get in my way.” Which as you can guess is exactly what is going to happen.
Brandt Legg presents a fast paced thriller with riveting chase sequences. Highly recommended. Five stars.
December 20, 2019
I knew even before I started reading that this new book in Brandt Legg's Chase series was going to take me on one hell of a thrilling ride. Who doesn't love a good car chase? This book has those and a few other vehicles thrown in for good measure. Poor Chase had so many bad guys gunning for him at one point I had no idea if he was going to survive this tale or not.
The thing with Mr. Legg's books is that he doesn't just take you on a thrill ride. He also makes you think about some really important social issues along the way. Chasing Dirt asks the serious question - what's more important - feeding people or saving the environment? Chase makes his choice. I wonder what yours would be?
The thing with Mr. Legg's books is that he doesn't just take you on a thrill ride. He also makes you think about some really important social issues along the way. Chasing Dirt asks the serious question - what's more important - feeding people or saving the environment? Chase makes his choice. I wonder what yours would be?
December 20, 2019
These books keep getting faster and more exciting. Chasing Dirt is another action-packed page-turner in the Chase Wen thriller series that began with Chasing Rain. What I love about these stories is the way each one approaches a world-changing technology being used for dangerous means. Of course I love the chase, and the high stakes adventure. Can’t wait for the next Chasing book!
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