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"Passion and Crime"
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About the Author... G. Graham Murray
The author of Passion and Crime holds three degrees from Harvard University. Upon receiving his Ph.D., he joined a research team at Johns Hopkins University exploring the applications of computer technology. Later he accepted an employment offer from a high-tech Fortune 500 company. Moving to California, he founded his own consulting company. After its rapid growth, he sold it. He has written extensively, traveled widely, and has had first-hand experience with passion and white-collar crime in the workplace.
A description of Passion and Crime
My eventual undoing was my driving ambition, a way of compensating for the embarrassment of my missing father. My humble beginnings motivated me to seek wealth and power. A scholarship let me attend Harvard, where I fell in love with Danielle, an English girl from a wealthy family. In my first job at Field & Ford in NYC, glamorous Stella van der Graf, Chief Financial Officer, noted my skills and confided she was forming a new company, Fantas, in San Diego. She proposed I join her and together we steal sufficient proprietary Field & Ford software to make Fantas successful. Stella said total dedication was essential, and I agreed without suspecting that we would make a fortune only through violence. She and I would become embroiled in disputes leading to two deaths, but our company succeeded.
Upon expiration of a legal agreement, my mother told me that a Mr. Miller was my missing father. After their divorce settlement David Miller moved to London to found Miller Re Ltd. I flew to London where he welcomed me warmly and said he was going to buy Fantas, making me wealthy. But the Fantas marketing head, Nick Hewett, had Carl, an employee, insert software bugs and demanded $20 M to remove them. David gave me the blackmail money. When the bugs were removed, Stella and I refused to pay. Nick had already been found dead of poisoning. When Carl threatened me, I grabbed his gun and he too died. Stella and I were rich now but were suspects in these deaths. Due to lack of evidence, we were not indicted.
In London David surprised me by saying my college girlfriend, Danielle, was his adopted daughter, whom he had look me up in college. Still in love I rushed to meet her, and after a short courtship she agreed to marry me. After the honeymoon, Paul said I must oversee Fantas for him. In San Diego Stella was waiting, and resisting her proved impossible. We resumed our affair. I tried to end it, but her bold sexuality sent a siren song that always lured me back. Although I wanted to be faithful to my beloved wife, Stella dominated me. I was entangled in a web woven from our ambition, betrayal, blind passion, and two suspicious murders. Suffering from guilt and torn between love for Danielle and uncontrolled passion for Stella, I fell into a deep depression. I had achieved the success I originally sought, but my once promising life was essentially at an end. In despair I thought of suicide.
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