About The Ryzhkov Vendetta 2nd Edition:
Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov, a Russian oligarch and former general in the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU), runs a covert operation in the Middle East, supplying Saudi terrorists with four Russian nuclear suitcase bombs and a list of two US cities to target. A CIA
operation (Operation Avenging Eagles) thwarts the planned attack and kills many Russian operatives, including his brother Sergei Ryzhkov. The oligarch is out for revenge.
Ryzhkov approached a former CIA station chief and offered him money in exchange for the CIA operatives’ names. Armed with this intelligence, he launched his vendetta, targeting the former
CIA operatives Mark Ericksen, now CEO of EyeD4 Systems, his fiancé Kate McDonald, a banking consultant, and Lars Wahlberg, COO of EyeD4 Systems.
Can Ericksen and his former operatives avoid the assassins’ poisoning and killing efforts, thereby turning around the deadly game of hunter and prey?
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Author Bio:
Barry L. Becker retired in 2013 after spending twenty-two years as a sole proprietor for his independent manufacturers’ representative company, covering the Pacific Northwest. He also provided marketing consultancy services to the Biometrics Technology industry.
From 1984 to 1991, he served as the vice president of international sales and marketing for Eyedentify, a Beaverton, Oregon-based company specializing in eye retinal technology for positive identification within sensitive and classified facilities. Their significant customers were intelligence agencies, defense and interior ministries, aerospace and defense contractors, nuclear power plants, banks, and financial institutions. During that period, he traveled over 500,000 miles.
In 1987, his article “Eyedentify Counters Security Threat” appeared in the Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, Volume 5, Number 8.
Mr. Becker earned a bachelor’s degree in creative arts interdisciplinary and minored in marketing at San Francisco State University. He has also completed Executive Programs at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and Stanford Business School. The Ericksen Connection was his first novel, and The Ryzhkov Vendetta is his second. The series is called “A Mark Ericksen Thriller Book 1 & 2.” Mr. Becker is currently working on the 3rd book in the trilogy.
The San Francisco Book Review gave The Ericksen Connection a 4.5 of 5.0-star rating. Mr. Becker is also a military veteran.