Golden Results

by Don Anderson


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 28/10/2010

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 216
ISBN : 9781452071077
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 216
ISBN : 9781452080284

About the Book

While today’s real world slowly grapples with the causes and consequences of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the flood of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border of the United States, Stan Rogers, the entrepreneurial hero of Don Anderson’s trilogy (Deadly Calm; Seas the Day; and Golden Results) employs a different method. Successful and wealthy due to his skills and vision in the world of technology, Rogers seeks to give back by addressing the global issues of the day. Rogers already has had a great impact on the issues of population control, drug running, illegal immigration, and unsustainable fishing practices. In Golden Results, Rogers turns his attention to energy. Combining both realism and idealism, Rogers cuts through the usual bureaucratic red tape while playing by a set of rules that will address a level field. Not everyone in the story does. Political intrigue includes red tape designed to trip-up Rogers and to marginalize his ideas and vision, while powerful cartel leaders, seeing Rogers’ energy project as a threat to their drug routes, play by a different set of rules, trailing death behind them as they try to kill the project.

The venue is Baja California and the ocean with the array of fish that live within. Whether the challenger takes on dorado, speedy tuna, strong trevelly, or spectacular tarpon in native waters-or monstrous billfish prowling the oceans with weapon unsheathed-the chance of success or failure looms at any time. So it is when Stan fishes; so it is when Stan addresses a global problem. A strong sense of conservation winds through the story like a line pulled from the reel by a powerful fish yet linked to a fisherman who knows and values the integrity of the sea and its inhabitants.


About the Author

Raised on the beaches of San Diego, Don Anderson belongs to the sea.  The 14-year-old cleaner of bait tanks on the Point Loma docks became a deck hand, a surfer, a life guard, an abalone diver, and, at 20, the captain of his own boat, the Mary Kay, an old Monterey, pointed at bow and stern. The old Monterey and her new young captain plied the waters of Northern California, from San Francisco to Moro Bay, following the tuna that provided tuition for Cal and later for UCSF dental school.  Boats and fish have always been central to Don’s life.  He has held world records in the catch and release of pelagic fish and is a certified boat captain. Golden Results, though fictional, is written with the insight that only an author with personal experience of boats, fish, the sea, and Mexico could have.

 

Keenly interested in current events, Don Anderson has created Golden Results as the third part of a trilogy following Stan Rogers, wealthy technology engineer, yachtsman, and fisherman, as he addresses world social problems and contends with those who would attempt to sabotage his efforts:  politicians, bureaucrats, drug dealers, human smugglers, poachers, and vendors of fossil fuels.  Continuing the saga that starts with Deadly Calm, and Seize the Day, Golden Results chronicles the adventure of building a solar station in the desert of Northern Baja California.