Rachel's Windmills
By CL Sumruld
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After settling in petroleum rich Monterey County, Rachel wins her first major case. Confronting Mesacity’s predominately male legal world, she establishes herself, in her words, as "a Jewish Princess Legal Bulldog.” Next, a group of ranchers, whose stock tanks have been mysteriously polluted by crude oil, enlist Rachel’s legal assistance. They suspect the big oil companies, whose hired legal guns and under-the-table political donations control the local justice system.
Goldman and Associates, more like an adopted, extended family than a law firm, agree to build a case against the oil companies. Rachel's little New Mexico legal family includes: Mary Francis, her outspoken legal secretary and surrogate mom, George, the retired, recovering alcoholic, Chicago attorney, and Carlos, the Hispanic six foot-eight, three hundred pound plus, gentle giant, special assistant. She is also aided by old friend Robin Carter, a Denver geologist, and former adversary-turned-supporter, Frank Potter, CEO of Chadwick Drilling Co. The team begins to untangle the web of deceit and corruption they believe is the basis of the oil-polluted windmill water wells.
Because of her Jewish heritage, Rachel becomes the target of anti-Semitic threats from the phantom perpetrator of hate crimes that follow. Deputy Sheriff Norm Lawson, succumbs to Rachel's wit and charm as he helps to protect her from the would-be assassin. He joins in her fight against the forces of greed, and political blackmail that threaten the ranchers’ existence. The story follows the transplanted New Yorker in her quest to overcome these diabolical plots, while coming to terms with the painful memories of loss and missed affection from her past and her relationship with her religious background.
The challenges the characters face and overcome yields a story rich in suspense, courtroom drama and wild western cowboy fun.
CL Sumruld
New Mexico born and raised, with stops along the way in Glenwood Springs, CO, Aspen, Ogden, UT, Denver & Sterling, CO and finally Nashville, actually Goodlettsville, TN. Retired from a career in Insurance and Finance, now Carl spends time "butchering wood, spinning yarns, pointing out the smartest, best looking grandkids around while, making music, enchiladas and trouble. "Writing is something I have to do" be it songs/poetry on scraps of paper left here and there or books lacking a few chapters or a real edit. I never run out of words.... written ones anyway. It's the ideas that count, and the story and characters from those idea's played out in prose. A beginning, a middle and an end, now that's the hard part. I love quirky characters, female heroines, good vs evil and animals. A few of my favorite authors and writers are; Charles Dickens,Fyodor Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, George Orwell John Steinbeck, Mark Twain. James Joyce. C.S. Lewis. And; Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut, Franz Kafka J.K. Rowling, William Faulkner, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, John Locke, Sara Gruen, J. Carson Black, Gabriel Garcia Marquez ,,J.D. Salinger, Homer, Victor Hugo, Charlotte Bronte, Agatha Christie, Ayn Rand, Robert Louis Stevenson Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Douglas Adams, Thomas Hardy, Dean Koontz, Michael Crighton, Herman Melville Dante Alighieri, Harper Lee, Joseph Conrad, Jack Kerouac Emily Bronte, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, W. Somerset Maugham, Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, Aldous Huxley Anton Chekhov, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Terry Pratchett, Ray Bradbury, Paulo Coelho John Milton, Henry Miller, ....whew...Dr. Seuss, George Eliot Jodi Picoult, Khalid Hosseini, Hunter S. Thompson John Grisham, Henry David Thoreau, Ian McEwan Joseph Heller, John Irving, H.P. Lovecraft, Taylor Caldwell, Salman Rushdie, Plato, Isaac Asimov, Thomas Mann Nicholas Sparks, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker Nathaniel Hawthorne, I think I'm repeating some, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dan Brown, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood Emily Dickinson, Maggie Osbourn, Zecharia Sitchin, Jean M. Auel, Clive Barker, and 100s more, I hope, before my eyes or my mind close.
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