Menlo

By Sterritt Armstrong

From Sterritt Armstrong comes an electrifying thriller of remarkable timeliness and relevance. MENLO launches with a false rape charge that triggers a lethal conspiracy involving Silicon Valley, Russia and the Deep State. Peter Berry is a partner at Iatrica, a San Francisco startup about to launch a smartwatch with breakthrough health monitoring features. But the firm is starving for capital and needs funding to survive; the only suitors with acceptable terms are Ilya Petrov, a Russian oligarch, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm. Petrov's bid for Iatrica has prompted the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to summon Peter for testimony in Washington. But his plans are disrupted when his son, William, a college freshman in the Valley, is accused of rape by a Russian girl in an exchange program. William says his memory is blank during the time in question; Peter surmises that he was drugged, and that the school will expel him after a perfunctory inquiry. Pressed for time by work and his looming testimony, Peter strives to clear William before the Russians leave. With the help of friends, colleagues and a mysterious benefactor, Peter learns that both he and Will are pawns in a lethal CIA plot to sway Peter's investor choice. Crafted with painstaking research and attention to detail, Sterritt Armstrong's MENLO hurtles nonstop while offering a provocative view of this moment in American history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1095978039
• ISBN13: 9781095978030
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"