The Equatorial Effect

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Steele Tollison is content with his new single life reliable friends budding romance and bright future. This is all about to change.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pressured into a one-year assignment that stretches into six this unlikely expatriate unlocks an odyssey of self-discovery in far-away </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Indonesia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. In </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>this exotic culture Steele finds adventure in the day-to-day makes new friends and learns the language. Whenever man-made obstacles threaten critical schedules he bends the rules in managing global supply contracts and logistics to assure equipment reaches the remote jobsites. Over time</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> he encounters corruption political upheaval and the inhumane underworld of sex trafficking.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He later marries an Indonesian girl and enjoys the comforts of family life. But that fragile peace shatters as Indonesia's economy collapses. Cities erupt in massive protests looting and deadly rioting. Eluding gangs roadblocks and military Steele combs the tangled city for baby food finding only empty shelves. When danger escalates and airports close he must decide - stay behind or escape the uprising with his family on the last flight out.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>In a chronicle that is candid humorous and direct </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)><em>The Equatorial Effect</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> shares raw captivating tales of romance danger personal redemption and the quest for justice in a world fraught with moral ambiguity.</span></p>