If you are bored with formula suspense fiction, Deadly Values is just what you're looking for. Deadly Values is set in New Orleans' sumptuous Garden District and peerless French Quarter during the 2006 Mardi Gras-just after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroy much of the Gulf Coast and beyond. Protagonist, Trent Lord, orphaned at birth, earns two Silver Stars and then rises rapidly to become the unlikely president of Squire Oil. Then his charmed life...