Extreme Betrayal

Extreme Betrayal is a gripping thriller that speeds across Europe as Sarah Mitchell, an American newly living in Vienna, embarks on a frantic chase to reclaim her stolen identity and unravel a web of criminal intrigue. A chartered accountant specializing in tax, forensic accounting, and financial planning, Sarah has been making a name for herself at her firm over the past five months, since arriving in Austria by way of London. When a mysterious parcel is delivered to her, perhaps by mistake, a stunned Sarah discovers it contains tens of thousands of Euros in cash, dozens of passports, checks, and credit cards, and the details of multiple bank accounts-many of which are issued in her name. Suddenly, Sarah's dream life as a young professional working overseas is turned upside down as she realizes that she might be implicated in some sort of fraud or conspiracy, and more troubling, that she has no idea of whom she can trust or where she should turn.With little more than an Italian postmark and a vague suspicion of the partners from her office's fifth floor, Sarah rushes to her friend from London, Anne Peacock, who is working in Vienna as a cyber-crime expert. With Anne's assistance, a pathway of potential financial fraud linking Italy and Eastern Europe is established, pointing in the direction of Milan and Trieste. Little do they know that in Trieste, police investigators are looking into the probable mafia hit of a courier and its likely connection to an ongoing investigation of global prostitution, drugs, and money laundering, codenamed "Operation Corridor." As the multi-national police work continues, Sarah and Anne move ahead with a perilous ploy to follow the trail of illicit funds and track down the perpetrators of Sarah's identity theft. Along the way, young Parisian lawyer Francois Dupere is inadvertently drawn into Sarah's plight and winds up on the ride of his life as Extreme Betrayal races between Europe's financial centers and Sarah fights to survive and triumph over unknown enemies.