The Enigma Rising

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Synopsis

Carlos & Juan have a sweet deal going, helping drug lords & their wealth vanish. The Enigma Rising focuses on overcoming opportunistic cyber-crime in the high-stakes world of information brokering in the 21st century. With its strong cast of characters these award-winning authors continue the use of a relevant technology foundation weaving in mystery, intrigue, romance, humor, and ethics.

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Author Biography

1st place winners TxAuthors; ABR 5 star awards for audio books; InD'Tale Crowned Heart Awards; CIPA Merit Award; Short Story Winners; Dan Poynter multiple winner; Breakfield and Burkey bring their Techno-Thriller series to life. Breakfield is a solution architect, for a high-tech manufacturer, who designs hybrid data/telecom environments. He is a technology geek, who enjoys writing, studying World War II, travel, and cultural exchanges. His love of wine tasting, cooking, and Harley riding has found inroads into the stories. As a child he moved often with his father’s military career, which even now helps his with the various character perspectives he helps bring to life in the series. Burkey Is a business architect who builds solutions for customers on a technology foundation. She has written many technology documents & white papers, but loves writing fiction. As a child she helped to lead kids with exciting new adventures built on make believe characters, a Girl Scout until high school, and contributed to the community as a young member of a Head Start program. Rox enjoys family, learning, listening to people, travel, outdoor activities, sewing, cooking, and thinking about how to diversify the series. Reach out to them at Authors@EnigmaSeries.com

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Author Insight

How does one round the edges off?

We have found people will do things for many different reasons. Sometimes it's greed, fame, power, or just because they can. What are the reasons you take actions? Do you find yourself cheering on characters who are doing something you only wished you might do? If we have villians and heroes, who decides the winner and loser? We wanted to show that often the obvious is in plain sight if someone just looks. When we look though, we can be guilty of not seeing.

Book Excerpt

The Enigma Rising

“Your suspicions were right, Jacob. The computer activity you spotted under the radar at the bank was accounting sleight of hand. The program being used was a decimal rounding program from our old friends at the Dteam used to divert third, fourth, and fifth decimal point earnings from a bank account to another destination. Petra just confirmed the program’s usage since it had part of her code in it along with yours.

“Upon closer inspection it looks like your contact Phillip Johnston is the instigator. With this little handiwork, he is building a nice little nest egg for himself. Here’s the funny part: it’s in his name with no outbound wire transfers to get it out of Dodge. I mean what a maroon this guy is. Even a first year junior internal auditor should be able to trace this.

“So I looked into this Johnston guy. He has been at the bank for three years now, but it looks like he has been trying to engineer himself into this position ever since he got there, probably with this idea in mind. You’d think that with three years to plan he would be a little more creative and stealthier than this. I know of people who make crossword puzzles that are more innovative than the guy who did this clumsy piece of work.

“Oh, and the other thing is he seems to be taking principle from six accounts that have come on line over the last six months, along with the rounding decimal movement. These accounts indicate that Carlos and Juan Rodriquez are the financial sponsors of record for these accounts. All of them are classified as inheritance type accounts with huge balances.”

Otto then asked, “What did you discover about Juan and Carlos?”

“That’s another odd series of issues. Juan is mostly a flyboy pilot with lots of pilot certifications, including one to fly Boeing 727 aircraft. Apparently he got that from a major carrier just before that airline collapsed. He has been practically non-existent since then but does surface every once in a while when he flies into U.S. airspace to party in Dallas, Texas.

“Carlos however came out of the Mexican Military. Haven’t found his last rank yet, but he was a part of the communications group where he received special training with U.S. counterparts. His record contains notations that he showed a very high aptitude for satellite and wireless communications in hostile climate conditions, and promotion was considered to an officer’s rank. He was subsequently thrown out of the military apparently for fighting and landing issues with a squad of eight soldiers in a bar one night. He had minor cuts and abrasions and was treated and released. The squad was hospitalized with one man still in rehabilitation.”

Jacob questioned, “Fighting and landing?”

Quip laughed, “Yeah, fighting and landing. Carlos did the fighting and the other eight soldiers did the landings.