Missing Owner?: Corporate Intent Series

By Hallett German

In this second series entry, the DCRI team takes on a perplexing case. The team must determine reality versus lies as they take on two heartless Free Triberian groups. In the process, they discover crazy baseball team fans, a mysterious company takeover, and sudden disappearance of its owner. Is getting to the truth too high a price to pay? Read this dysfunctional corporate thriller to learn more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hallett German
• Release date: Jun 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301495733

Hallett German

Hallett German is a fiction and technical subject author on various aspects of IT. His works of fiction cross multiple genres including children, young adult, dysfunctional corporate mysteries/fantasies, historical fiction, and steampunk. His books offer a unique and original ride into other worlds and lives.

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Missing Owner?

Corporate Intent Series Book#2

Hallett German

.v22e June 18th, 2013

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2013 Hallett German

Written by Hallett German

Illustrated by Alessandra R. German

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Works by Author:

Amazi Chronicles:

Story #1: How I Overcame My Inventor’s Block

Book #1: Automatons for Peace

Corporate Intent

Story #1: Missing Profits?

Book #1: Missing Employees?

Book #2: Missing Owner?

Book #3 Missing Company?

Olivia Plymouth, International Traveler and Fashion Consultant:

Story #1: Joyous Travel with the Wrong Suitcase

Book #1: Brazilian Quest

Book #2: Misadventures in Boston

Non-Series Books

Combustible Networks: Year One

Ghosts vs. Robots!

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Understaffed

Chapter 2: An Unexpected Lead

Chapter 3: First Steps

Chapter 4: Brainstorming Session

Chapter 5: Setback

Chapter 6: Some Progress

Chapter 7: What Happened to Judy?

Chapter 8: Case Review

Chapter 9: Strong Sense of Urgency

Chapter 10: Unauthorized Access

Chapter 11: Picnic and an Old Flame.

Chapter 12: What Happened to Judy: Part 2?

Chapter 13: Light Dawns on Marblehead

Chapter 14: Closing In

Chapter 15: A Helpful Detainment

Chapter 16: Getting Evidence

Chapter 17: Brotherly Meeting

Chapter 18: Awakening

Chapter 19: Last Gasp

Chapter 20: Aftermath

Chapter 21: Bonus Original Opening to Missing Owners?

Introduction

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Some corporations are real and some exist only in the mind. This is a story about the

latter, presented both as a fantasy and a mystery. Nothing more than that.

HG

Chapter 1: Understaffed

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It was a wonderful summer day on the Many Miles River. The boats were steadily going up and down the river. The many beachgoers were enjoying the waves and the sun. And Judy Duty (yes that is her real name) was happily working in her executive office on a cliff overlooking the river. She worked as CEO of the Dysfunctional Corporation Research Institute (DCRI). The Institute’s purpose was to investigate those companies that endangered public welfare. This was allowed under the Harmful Corporation Elimination Act which permitted non-governmental investigations of suspected companies without punitive recourse. This was sorely needed since Earth had become a battleground of galactic conglomerates fighting with each other and encroaching on worker and customer rights.

It had been three short years since successfully investigating Inscrutable Consulting (see Book #1 Missing Employees) in which Judy and the Institute were personally and professionally tested. But at the end she had gained a new employee, Warica Arcane, whose brothers had ironically run Inscrutable Consulting (IC). It also let the world know that DCRI would go to great lengths to serve the public interest through unrelenting investigations. Two key employees of DCRI were now on maternity leave. This included Warica (COO and business partner) who was taking time to raise her son Victor (named after her mother Victoria). Fellow DCRI employee Johnny Lemay was her devoted husband and actively shared in childrearing duties. Laura Garfield, the head of research, was the other key employee on maternity leave. She was expecting a baby any day now along with the anxious father Prince Bobby Tychato from the small kingdom of Mirwint on Jupiter’s satellite Themisto.

Judy was smiling because things were once again like the old days when she reigned supreme, before Warica came aboard as partner. It was all up to her to decide on the next targets. This decisive moment was both thrilling and scary. She