An Improbable Love StoryA classic Grecian beauty who lives with constant danger, Ariana travels the roads of Eastern Europe delivering contracts too incriminating to be sent any other way. Alone at high speed in her Bentley, she wonders who she really is, why she's always been so aloof, indifferent to the admiration she receives. An evening watching a belly-dancer opens the door to her sudden self-discovery and the exciting though provoking story that unfolds.FLASHDRIVE takes you into a little known world of high-level international crime where betrayal is commonplace and transcendent love is unknown. From "Cartier" in the Place Vendome, to the bar at "The Bigudi Terrace" in Istanbul, to the remoteness of an archaeological dig at Troy, to "Frolik" - the superyacht of a Russian billionaire - the story moves quickly, contrasting Ariana's interior search to the vast cybercrimes directed by her father from his office overlooking the Aegean.Her library of music, stored on iPods in "Zeus" - Ariana's Bentley - plays an oddly powerful part in bringing her together with the son of an especially unpleasant international criminal. The relationship that evolves between them challenges their assumptions while creating a bond like no other."Zeus'" top speed is 204 miles per hour, able to outrun everything on the road. The "character" of "Zeus" is based on an actual production model Bentley with a mind-boggling sound system beyond state-of-the-art. Trained to drive at high speeds at the Nuerburgring in Germany, Ariana tolerates no challengers on the road.FLASHDRIVE is a fun read. The absurdities of ancient Greek mythology pop up at unlikely moments even as Rodion Spassky, the uncouth billionaire, salivates when Ariana comes aboard his yacht. The sybaritic splendors of five-star hotels serving cuisine fit for angels are generously studded along the routes of Ariana's threatened life.FLASHDRIVE will take you far away from where you are - at breathtaking speeds.
About the Author: Alec Nesbitt is the author of "The Sparrow Trilogy" and "The Anonymous Bicycle - Memoranda to My Children". He was a Kinsman Trust Scholar at Magdalen College School in Oxford and took his degree in Fine Art and Modern European History at Oxford University. Alec's career as a writer powerfully reflects the many years he has lived in England, France, Ireland and Germany. His fiction, redolent of time and place, spans the period from 1935 to the present, a range requiring several keenly observed period "voices", all noted for their authenticity and uncompromising attention to detail. His life-long passion is the fragile ethos of the European interwar period: the fashions, cuisine, motorcars and mores that infallibly evoke the insouciance of lives liberated by the First World War yet doomed by the gathering shadows of the Second.