| The Olive Horseshoe by Ben F. Small is a mystery | | | | Unbeknownst to him, Denton winds up being the |
| that combines his love of the outdoors, his | | | | cause of several people's horrendous deaths, in his |
| knowledge of the law and of the interesting | | | | want to take care of those around him. What he also |
| personalities he must of met in his years as an | | | | doesn't learn until the adventure is almost over is just |
| antitrust attorney. | | | | how close his lack of relationship to his father is to |
| Small has created Billionaire Denton Wright as the | | | | the reason he was actually killed. |
| main character. Wright is a man who through hard | | | | Some of his co-horts in his quest are Jenna Rogers-a |
| work, cashing in on an internet business and | | | | Californian wine-maker whose father was also |
| investment savvy would up being a very rich man. A | | | | murdered with Denton's parent. Carlos La Jolla, |
| very rich man who had been estranged from his | | | | Jenna's hot-blooded black belt friend and partner, |
| father for many years. | | | | whose eyes give no clue to what he's thinking |
| Wright decides to re-evaluate his life with a kayaking | | | | except a challenge to fight. |
| trip in the wilderness to decide how he should go | | | | Joe Corsano, Denton's father's business partner. A |
| about bridging the rather huge strained gap between | | | | man that, even as a boy, Denton neither liked or |
| him and his father. However, for the first time in his | | | | trusted. |
| adult life, his timing couldn't be worse. Just as Denton | | | | His good friend, assistant, part-time lover Mandy-who |
| is coming back home, he finds out that his father's | | | | puts her life on the line to help find the murderers. |
| mutilated body has washed up on the Spanish Coast. | | | | Along the way, there are some savvy New York |
| Learning that his father and a traveling companion | | | | city police detectives, an old college friend who is |
| were slaughtered by a drug cartel-he decides he | | | | now part of the FBI and some very scary |
| must get payback for whoever it is who took the | | | | characters. |
| father he barely knew. | | | | Of course, there are the required love connections |
| The problem arises when he finds out that drug | | | | and close calls and of course at the end, we finally |
| cartels are not necessarily the easiest to track down | | | | find out just the Olive Horseshoe is-which didn't play |
| and they have no problem killing whomever gets in | | | | as big a part in this mystery as you might have |
| their way-no matter how innocent. | | | | suspected. |