Jason and Kenny needed investors for their startup company but when Italian drug smuggler Roberto Campioni makes them an offer they can’t refuse, they get more help than they bargain for: the Feds and Interpol are watching, the smuggler’s cartel created in violence during World War II is crumbling, and Roberto’s henchmen, even with their love of Clint Eastwood movies, aren’t the type of corporate advisers the pair dreamed of.
And all Kenny wanted was an island vacation with his new girlfriend…
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“Our other merchandise is sold by the gram, or by the kilo” said Luca.
Carmine smirked at Jason.
“Think you can sell software by the kilo?”
Jason returned the smile.
“I’ll sell it any way they’ll buy it.”
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“Master hacking, topless snorkeling, wine, war, and corporate intrigue spin smoothly in Larry Ketchersid’s fast moving, high octane second novel, spanning two continents, two time periods, and all kinds of friendship, business, and love. If you like high-tech action served with cultural savvy and keen human insight, you’ll snap up Software by the Kilo.”
-Paul Levinson, author of The Plot to Save Socrates and New New Media
“In Software by the Kilo, Larry Ketchersid writes about romance like a romantic, about computers like a geek, about the Mafia like a Don, about war like he’s been there. Perhaps, best of all, he writes about ordinary people as though he were one.”
- Robert Flynn, author of Echoes of Glory and Wanderer Springs
In the summer of 2005, I was about to venture into my third small start-up company, wrapping up the last items with my previous employer. As luck would have it, my previous employer had offices in Europe, in Milan, Munich and London. We were lucky enough to wrap in a non-business trip to Greece, including the island of Paxos around my visiting the European customers and offices. I was hiking around that island one day, being pursued by thoughts of start-up company financing, when I came across a large villa, facing out across the Adriatic Sea towards Italy. Wouldn’t it be great, I mused, if there were a nice angel investor in that villa who would like to invest in this next venture? What if he were an Italian drug smuggler? That was the genesis for my new novel, Software by the Kilo. But it wasn’t until last November, several years after that first trip, that the novel was finished, with a World War II back story that tied the original start-up plus Italian drug smuggler story line together. It is no coincidence that the book is released on December 2, the anniversary of “Little Pearl Harbor”, the bombing of Bari, Italy in 1943, which ends up as a pivotal setting in the novel. Of course I had to add in that one of the Italian henchmen loves Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, and that led to the body count game… I never thought it would be more than three years between novels; obviously Stephen King I’m not, in more ways than just output. But I’ve enjoyed thoroughly the writing process, getting the pieces of the story to fall into place, bouncing ideas off of friends and fellow writers. The voices in my head never shut up, so my therapy to keep what little sanity I have left is to keep putting them down on paper.
“Master hacking, topless snorkeling, wine, war, and corporate intrigue spin smoothly in Larry Ketchersid’s fast moving, high octane second novel, spanning two continents, two time periods, and all kinds of friendship, business, and love. If you like high-tech action served with cultural savvy and keen human insight, you’ll snap up Software by the Kilo.”
-Paul Levinson, author of The Plot to Save Socrates and New New Media
“In Software by the Kilo, Larry Ketchersid writes about romance like a romantic, about computers like a geek, about the Mafia like a Don, about war like he’s been there. Perhaps, best of all, he writes about ordinary people as though he were one.”
- Robert Flynn, author of Echoes of Glory and Wanderer Springs
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