Sharon O’Mara is hired for a simple job; find out who killed the great America’s Cup skipper and technical genius, Catherine Voss. Was it out of envy and greed? Or was it an international conspiracy to steal her high-tech boat? Catherine’s twin brother wants answers - and it doesn't hurt that JF Voss has killer good-looks. While the ultra-rich battle for the historic America’s Cup along the canals of Venice and on San Francisco Bay, Sharon O’Mara fights to find the answers to Catherine’s death. Who would kill for the secrets hidden in the technological heart of the lightning-fast hydrofoil? Will Sharon discover the murderer before they can kill her? Can she outwit the bad guys and stop World War III? What does JF Voss have that she wants? And what incredible secrets are hidden along Venice’s Grand Canal? 12th Man for Death is Book Four in Gregory C. Randall’s the award-winning action-adventure-thriller series starring Sharon O'Mara and her friends Detective Kevin Bryan and Gina Cavelli. Reviewed by Anne Boling for Readers Favorite This is the fourth volume in the Sharon O'Mara series. Readers will enjoy the suspense and wit of the characters in 12th Man For Death. The plot of this tome is built around the American Cup race. This book has it all: a touch of romance, and thrills and chills that will keep the reader quickly turning the pages to see what will happen next. The 12th Man in Death is a great read. Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers Favorite This is a well-written thriller that will captivate readers everywhere. It is filled with action, drama and suspense. Sharon O'Mara is a great central character, tough but sexy and all woman. Readers will enjoy other characters such as detective Kevin Bryan, JF, Ellis Turner and her assistant Eva Karg. They are all believable characters that come to life on the pages of the story. The plot proceeds with breath-taking twists and turns to the story's last page. So, thriller fans everywhere, don't miss "The 12th Man for Death"! Reviewed by Stephanie Dagg for Readers Favorite This book is everything you'd expect from this exciting author. As with all the Sharon O'Mara Chronicles, this novel is fast-paced, meticulously researched and fascinating. We're also there with Sharon, seeing inside her head and sharing her struggles and successes. She is a complex human being, with flaws and idiosyncrasies like the rest of us; she's someone we'd like to know. The plot is imaginative and plausible and doesn't let up for a second. This is altogether an accomplished and absorbing novel. This is the fourth book in the Sharon O'Mara Chronicles and continues Sharon's difficulties in finding stability in her life. In the previous books she fought evil developers and environmentalists, Chinese Tongs and Mexican cartels, and an attempt to bring back a modern version of the Hitler's Nazis. She vanquished them all. Now her business card says 'Facilitator' and she is hired to do jobs that are tough and dangerous by people desperate to find answers. Now she's faced with her biggest threat - sailboats. They are wet and cold, not her preferred way of travel where a bar would be appreciated. In his latest thriller Gregory C. Randall provides the international backdrops of San Francisco, Baghdad, Paris, and Venice to tantalize the reader. Take a ride on the America's Cup 45 foot catamaran across San Francisco Bay, be immersed in cold salt water after the sudden crash of these huge machines, feel the heat and dust of an al-Qaeda ambush in the desert of Iraq, and taste the sweet prosecco of an evening masked ball on the Grand Canal of Venice, it's all here in the the latest Chronicle, 12th Man for Death . Rich boys and their toys . . . and death! Gregory C. Randall was born on a hot and muggy day in the summer of 1949 in Traverse City, Michigan. He grew up in Chicago. Californian by choice, Mr. Randall makes his home in Walnut Creek, California with his wife and constant companion. Mr. Randall is the author of fiction and non-fiction works.