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- Title: Wolverine Hills Espionage Scout
- Author : L.Gordon Kesler
- Release Date : January 25, 2019
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2609 KB
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Wolverine Hills Espionage Scout by L. Gordon Kesler
This story is based on a very real and little-known world of oil field espionage. In the oil and gas industry, the politically correct term for spying is Oil Field Scouting, it is an integral part of oil company exploration and acquisition of oil and gas mineral rights.
The current situation in the Middle East, as well as the politics surrounding exploration of hydrocarbon fuels, makes this story extremely relevant and intriguing.
The year is 2008. An international terrorist group headed up by Syria’s president has declared war on its Middle Eastern neighbors for supporting U.S. sanctions against his regime. Assad’s people have blown up oil facilities and have blocked the shipping lanes effectively stopping the flow of oil to North America.
The chapters in the story move alternately from major events in the oil field between scouts and counter-scouts to the conflicts in the high-rise executive suites in downtown Calgary, Alberta, and Houston, Texas.
Max is a field scout with seven years’ experience. He has a tan complexion which is reflective of his Native American heritage and is extremely handsome with a muscular build from years of hard labor on drilling rigs. He is married to an attractive blonde woman and they have five children. Max is one smart, ambitious guy who initially got into field scouting so that he could accumulate enough money to start his own oil field supply company. He is working for a junior upstart oil company. In the field, Max encounters opposition scouts as well as counter scouts.
Tom Hughes is the main protagonist in the field. Hughes is a 35-year-old baby-faced blond who considers himself a super scout and has a huge ego. Whatever it takes to stop Max from getting information from his client’s well, he is prepared to do. Kidnapping and using explosives are all a part of Hughes’s modus operandi.
Hughes has a partner in crime, Bill Emerson, nicknamed Polecat. Polecat has been spying for 30 years and his ambition burned out years ago. He is an alcoholic who spends more time in the local bars trying to get laid than he spends in the field spying for his client. Age and alcohol have made him careless and he becomes a useful pawn in Max's pursuit of information.
The second conflict occurs in the gilded high-rise offices on Sixth Avenue in downtown Calgary, the oil capital of Canada. At the West end of Sixth Avenue on the sixth floor, there is a junior upstart oil company made up of a small group of people, all with special skills necessary for success. Wayne Stadwell is president and leader of the group. Stadwell is quiet and reserved almost to the point of being shy, but when it comes to business, he is a no-nonsense guy. At 37 he is highly respected by his coworkers and associates. In order for the company to succeed Wayne has mortgaged everything and for him failure is not an option.
At the other end of Sixth Avenue stands a tower of granite and marble with bronze tinted windows, 44 stories high. On the 42nd floor is the drilling superintendent for one of the top three oil companies in the world. Roger White is in his sixties and has been with the company since he started as a roughneck 40 years ago. Roger is a throwback to the old days of oil field executives. He is rugged and foul-mouthed, even in the company of women. Roger always wanted to be important consequently expensive cars and fast women are all a part of his persona. The cigar stub that he chews on and rolls from side to side is a constant fixture even when it isn’t lit. The potential for getting credit for a major oil find would mean a huge promotion and would be a great feather in his hat. What Roger doesn’t know is his anger and abuse of people will catch up with him and cost him grabbing the brass ring.