Ultimate Betrayal

About the Book

Ultimate Betrayal - a suspense-filled novel of an all-consuming desire for revenge and a love that wouldn’t die. Ryce Traden works in Montauk, aboard a fishing boat. His dream: own a fishing boat and marry Taylor Banning. Wesley, is Ryce’s ‘best friend’ and also wants Taylor. Ryce’s dream sets factors exploding into the novel’s driving force. Needing money, Ryce makes a pick-up he thinks are knock-offs, but are drugs. Wesley notifies the police. A judge and lawyer, protecting their smuggling, put Ryce in prison and say he died at sea. Taylor marries Wesley. Ryce escapes, plans to use Taylor’s daughter for his revenge and hires a lawyer for a new trial with exciting courtroom surprises. The suspenseful ending is terrifying as Ryce fights Wesley in his final act of vengeance.

About the Author

Gene Ligotti was educated at Adelphi University and received his doctorate at New York University. Due to suff ering with severe Rheumatoid Arthritis, he had to give up his successful thirty year practice of dentistry in Huntington, NY. He began writing as merely something to do, but it soon became a driving force. As a freelance writer he wrote a monthly column about the history of the villages in the Catskill Mountains and of the romantic Hudson River. His acclaimed articles on dentistry have been printed in various dental journals. Ligotti lives in Smithtown, New York, with his wife, Corbina, where they can be close to their daughters, Gina and Lisa and their grandchildren; grandson, Gino and twin granddaughters, Gabrielle and Juliette.