Secrets: A Legal Thriller by Rick Acker
Secrets by Rick Acker is a very tight, gripping novel that instantly hooks the reader with its vivid description of a stunner coupled with a light joke as to why she was hired by a Silicon Valley billionaire whose death disrupts an impending lawsuit focused on trade secrets stolen from an aerospace startup.
The book moves fast capturing the pace of the Bay Area's business world while educating the reader about business, litigation, geopolitics, and tense relationships. On the one hand, you have conflict between two lawyers who fiercely battle wits in the courtroom, but off court, they form a bond that would have surprised a judge who once admonished their adversarial behavior. Then there's the fiery relationship between a Russian mother, a senior research scientist at the Volkov Institute, and her daughter, the alleged spy who stole secrets from the aerospace startup.
The book is taut. Every word is perfectly crafted, and each page captures infinite complexity. The author artfully recreates scenes of San Francisco while developing characters into relatable people by alluding to their personal history. For example, the beautiful spy's father died fighting in Afghanistan in the 1980s which helps illuminate her modus operandi.
Rick Acker's books are a gold mine for readers interested in corporate fraud, Silicon Valley, tech, and the legal system because he was a corporate lawyer at a leading firm for five years before transitioning to the Department of Justice where he has supervised attorneys for well over a decade.
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