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The Bridge To Caracas is a very special story because it is the factional account of the real life experience of the author. As disclosed in his biography, he spent the second half of his career working for one of the smallest oil companies in the world: his own.
"It combines an engaging love story with a suspenseful tale of financial malfeasance in the oil and gas industry." - Review
The Book has been self-published via Amazon and is available as eBook - 332 pages - released in June 2013.
About the Book
Jim Servito shatters the hopes and aspirations of star-crossed lovers, Mike King and Karen Taylor, while simultaneously engineering a grand theft ranking as one of the largest and most audacious in Canadian and U.S. history. Cynical and remorselessly ruthless, he possesses a brilliant criminal mind, has enormous contempt for the law, police, governments, and the system in which they function. He assumes rules are for fools, and takes sadistic pleasure in breaking them. Using The Peace Bridge as his fulcrum, he steals $325,000,000 from the U.S. and Canadian governments, steals enormous quantities of gasoline by illegally installing valves in Golden National’s Buffalo refinery, then murders everyone who can implicate him.
The setting is storybook perfect. The beautiful daughter of wealthy parents meets the handsome son of middle class parents. The two fall in love and assume they will marry and live happily ever after. History would prove their assumption wrong. Cruel twists of fate and the wrath of Jim Servito combine to prescribe a horrible nightmare for the two lovers, one that grows in intensity and ultimately leads them to prison, then a life and death confrontation with Servito in Caracas.
Karen Taylor, tired of life in private school for girls, the endless doting of her wealthy parents, and the monotony of constant female company, wants out, to experience the real world, preferably on her own. Her priorities lead her to an endless love affair with Mike King, but his marriage to another woman leads her to a disastrous marriage to Jim Servito.
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Reviews (Excerpts)
- "This book kept me turning the pages nonstop. Not only has Douglass created a suspenseful, intriguing tale, he also wrote a beautiful love story. Highly recommended! " - Holly
- " Mr. Douglass spins a yarn that makes one ask serious questions about the reality of the oil business. Could it be that a few control the multitude of monies that we pump into our tanks? Could someone really have a "special" account in the Caymans? If so, can I have a small part? Great story - enjoy all!" - Riles
- "The theme of good versus evil sits on top of the question, 'What would you do for love?' Stephen Douglass's book, The Bridge to Caracas, is a heavily plotted story within the murky world of the oil and gas industry that he seems familiar with. It takes place in the 1960s through the 1970s, and centers on how Jim Servito steals boatloads of money from the industry and screws everyone who gets in his way. [...]" - Carrie J. Bylina
- "I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Subject matter is interesting, as well as the characters. It caught my interest immediately and I found it hard to put down. I highly recommend it to both men and women." - JCarro
- "Steve Douglass has produced a slick novel about the greasy underworld of the oil and gas industry during the 70's. It is a terrific read and leaves one wondering where the fiction ends and the truth begins about this turbulent time in the history of the industry in North American. I recommend the book to anyone looking to be entertained on a beach or curled up by the winter fire.[...] " - BAI
About the Authors
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| Author Stephen Douglass |
For Stephen, writing was an accident. When his friends in Muskoka and Florida became aware of the story of his incredible life in the Canadian oil business, they encouraged him to commit it to writing. They insisted it was a story that must be told, that it is a piece of national history. Reluctantly, he did, and after more than twenty years the story of AN ENDLESS AND CONFLICTED LOVE, A MAN WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE AND NEARLY LOST HIS LIFE DOING IT, and ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST AUDACIOUS THEFTS IN CANADIAN HISTORY, was finally made public.
Stephen has entitled the book: The Bridge to Caracas, for reasons that will ultimately be obvious to readers. Prior to choosing that title, he considered entitling the book: The Nicest Crook I Ever Knew, but in the end, Jim Servito, the antagonist, was really not very nice.
The sequels,The Tainted Trust, (the story of what happened to the $325,000,000 stolen from the Canadian and U.S. governments), the second in The King Trilogy, and Kerri’s War, the third volume in The King Trilogy, (the continuing saga of the inconvenient fortune), are now live on Amazon KDP.
Stephen has said, “If readers have half as much fun reading The King Trilogy as I did writing it, they will be enriched.”
Links to the Author and the Book
Connect with the Author on Twitter: @douglasssteve
Connect with the Author on Facebook: steve.douglass.77
Link to the eBook The Bridge to Caracas with Excerpt on Amazon
