WCYR

Announcing Contention by Gary D. McGugan

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Loni Cameron
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About the Book:

Fidelia Morales is a supreme mobster in the world of organized crime, with international interests in prostitution, illicit drugs, gambling, payday loans, and money laundering. She also rules her outfit with an iron fist. How will she react when her sometime lover and top financial genius wants out?

Howard Knight lived under Fidelia’s rigid control while he invested, scammed, or stole hundreds of millions in cyber currency for her and her criminal outfit, The Organization. But he craves freedom.

Will she let him wade into a new corporate espionage venture from a Caribbean Island? Can the notorious crime boss manipulate her on-and-off lover’s ambitions and still realize a long-held dream of controlling one of the world’s largest publicly traded businesses?

Contention pits the aspirations of one against the unimaginable power and reach of the other, setting Multima Corporation’s CEO—Suzanne Simpson—squarely in their criminal crosshairs. Will the high-powered executive recognize signals of impending danger soon enough to defend the massive company she inherited?

About Gary:

Gary D. McGugan served as Co-Chair of the WCYR during 2020-2021, then as advisor to the board in 2022-2023. He loves to tell stories and is the author of Three Weeks Less a Day, The Multima Scheme, Unrelenting Peril, Pernicious Pursuit, and award-winning novels A Web of Deceit and A Slippery Shadow. After a forty-year career at senior levels of multinational corporations, Gary’s writing uses artful suspense to entertain and inform. His launch of a new writing career—at an age when most people retire—reveals an ongoing zest for new challenges and a lifelong pursuit of knowledge. Home is Newmarket, but Gary thinks of himself as a true citizen of the world. His passion for travel and his broad experience are evident in every chapter.

Find Gary on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn and garydmcguganbooks.com

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