VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Barking Rain Press, a non-profit fiction publisher, announced the hardcover, paperback and eBook release of the high-tech suspense novel "Cost of Goods Sold: A Novel of Silicon Valley" from legendary Silicon Valley journalist, author, and entrepreneur Michael S. Malone. Malone is the author of twenty non-fiction books, including such award-winning bestsellers as "The Virtual Corporation" and "Bill & Dave." "Cost of Goods Sold" is the second installment in the "Silicon Valley Quartet;" "Learning Curve: A Novel of Silicon Valley," was the first book in the series.
The saga of Validator Software and its Silicon Valley executive team continues in "Cost of Goods Sold," moving onto a global stage in the second book of the Silicon Valley Quartet. As the tech world threatens to slide into one of its regular bust cycles, Validator CEO Alison Prue decides to play a high-tech, high-risk game of chicken. While her faint-hearted competitors are hitting the brakes, Prue punches the accelerator at Validator in hopes of gaining market share—and profits.
The new strategy soon leads several of Validator’s senior executives to move beyond cutting corners to actual criminal conspiracy. Their plan puts particular strain on the company factory in China, where a young girl has left behind her country village and watched her dreams come true beyond anything she could imagine… until everything changes. As Validator races towards the fate its executives have brought about, it may take the intervention of even more powerful forces to save the company.
Ask for "Cost of Goods Sold: A Novel of Silicon Valley" at your favorite bookstore, or buy it online at the Barking Rain Press website, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Powells, Waterstones, and many other Internet bookstores. It is also available as an eBook through Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, iTunes iBooks, Kobo, Content Reserve/Overdrive, the Barking Rain Press website and many other outlets worldwide.
Interested readers can preview the first four chapters of "Cost of Goods Sold: A Novel of Silicon Valley" for free by visiting the Barking Rain Press website at barkingrainpress.org.
COST OF GOODS SOLD: A NOVEL OF SILICON VALLEY
Silicon Valley Quartet, Book 2
BISAC Genre Codes:
FIC030000 — FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
FIC036000 — FICTION / Thrillers / Technological
FIC031000 — FICTION / Thrillers / General
BIC Genre Codes:
FH — Thriller/Suspense
LCCN: 2015937591
Hardcover with Dust Jacket (190 pp)
ISBN-13: 978-941295-51-9
ISBN-10: 1-941295-51-7
Retail Price: $22.95 USD
Distributors: Ingram, Bertram Books, Gardners Books
Trade Paperback (190 pp)
ISBN-13: 978-1-941295-3-11
ISBN-10: 1-941295-31-2
Retail Price: $13.95 USD
Distributors: Ingram, Bertram Books, Gardners Books
eBook (ePub, Kindle, PDF)
ISBN-13: 978-1-941295-32-8
ISBN-10: 1-941295-32-0
Retail Price: $5.95 USD
Distributors: Content Reserve/Overdrive, Ingram
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