the Snow Leopard and Ibex, Third Edition

The 2008 U.S. Financial Crisis: No loans, no credit, millions of home foreclosures and more than ten million workers laid off. This historical fiction-action novel is about one small business owner, out of 25 million, who faces extraordinary odds to save his company. Owner Daniel Prescott scrambles to arrange financing for his expanding business but is shut out from local funding providers. When he attempts to secure international sources of credit, anti-Russian terrorists hijack his plane, killing or imprisoning crew-members and binding the passengers. Confronted with this new emergency, Daniel finds his early military training reawakening and jumps into action. As word of the hijacking gains worldwide attention, his close friend, Arianna, goes on a journey of her own, from Seattle to Washington, D.C., to high in the Swiss Alps, in search of the man she thought she knew.