Publisher's Synopsis
The Pelican Squadron is a tale of intrigue, revenge, and redemption in the golden age of the internet in Silicon Valley, where money triumphs over ethics, but where some people and some things are worth fighting for.
Liz-Beth, a successful, retired, widowed businesswoman, meets William, a young, failed technology company founder by chance on a Northern California beach. They strike a friendship, and a partnership, to wrench William's business from investors who stole it from him, and avenge the death of Liz-Beth's friend, driven to suicide two decades before, by the same criminal. Orphaned in college by the tragic disappearance of his parents, William loses the company he started in his Stanford dorm room, to investors who took advantage of him when the technology bubble burst. Alone, despondent, he escapes to the family cottage in a tiny remote village on the coast and drops out. Lonely and alone, Liz-Beth befriends him and discovers their common enemy. Dating from Liz-Beth's generation, the story takes the reader through the lives of Liz-Beth, her husband Bunny, and the love story of William's parents before and during the Second World War, a tour of San Francisco, along the coast to Capitola, and into the heart of Silicon Valley. Assisted by a retired attorney, an undocumented employee of William's company, Liz-Beth's Japanese gardener, a Las Vegas investigator, William's long suffering girlfriend, and a parrot who curses in Japanese; Liz-Beth and William hunt for evidence to wage a legal battle climaxing in the conference room of a high powered San Francisco law firm. Unknown to William, "Mason", the investigator Liz-Beth hires to gather evidence of the fraud used to steal William's company, tries in parallel to solve the mystery of the disappearance of William's parents. He faces a moral and ethical dilemma from the discovery. The two parallel efforts merge to a shocking ending.
