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About Buying Time
Bridging the gap between reality and fiction,
Buying Time discloses what triggered the
collapse of the lucrative Arabian horse industry...
This sequel to Trading Paper is a perfect sprinkling of fact on top of a mountain of fiction. Buying time is full of morally challenged characters who resolve their problems in unforgettable and unconventional ways.
Cali Canberra sets a fast pace of excitement in the high-stakes world of the decadent 1980's. Using Trading Paper as the backdrop, Canberra has cleverly created a stand-alone story utilizing several key characters from her first book. She has molded some wildly colorful individuals that help to unfold this topsy-turvy tale of murder, manipulation, suspense and big business.
The story, which sweeps from the Arizona desert of Scottsdale to mountainous Santa Ynez, California, from the bluegrass horse farms of Kentucky to Florida's horse capital in Ocala - will keep you captivated. By spattering the novel with references to real-life businesses and individuals, Canberra has intentionally blurred the line between reality and fiction. This gripping story exposes the darker side of the horse world while entertaining and educating the reader.
Self-appointed industry kingpin, Greg Bordeaux, weaves his way from riches to ruin in his quest to create, develop and sustain a market for the horses he loves. Bordeaux is faced with the undaunting task of overcoming insurmountable obstacles from an unscrupulous attorney to an unsolved murder in which he is a key suspect. In the middle of his living nightmare, he is bombarded with family in-fighting, the era's biggest stock market crash and a major overhaul to the federal tax code, eliminating the incentive for buyers to pay outlandish prices for horses.
What people are saying about Buying Time:
"From the first white knuckle phone call, Buying Time gallops at a breakneck pace through the underpinnings of a manicured and manipulative world where showing up your competition is as important as showing off your horses. It's fiction with one hoof in reality whether or not you understand the show world as intimately as Canberra proves she does. Ripped-from-the-headlines celebrity deaths, federal reforms and a little computer/home phone idea called the Internet remind us that the fine line between real and written life is a blurry one at best. No elite equine pedigree boasts has many branches as the Buying Time's plot line and - as usual - Canberra introduces us to characters so compellingly despicable we can't help but go along for the ride.
Where Trading Paper began, and Never Enough! left readers hungry for more, Buying Time completes an exotic, erotic trilogy of life on the edge of the show ring - where you don't look too closely in to the dark corners without the risk of finding more than you can handle!"
~ Western Massachusetts Horse Whisperer magazine - L.A. Pomeroy
"In Buying Time, Cali Canberra brings back some of the most memorable characters from her exciting novel Trading Paper. Shady horse deals, betrayal, lust, love, greed, murder, and deeds of redemption all take center stage in the high stakes world of the Arabian horse industry of the 1980s. Cali Canberra is one of the greatest equine, as well as human, storytellers to come along in years. You won't be able to put this book down until after the final twist of the story!"
~ Hallie McEvoy - National Show Horse News
"Greg Bordeaux is one of those characters you can't forget, nor do you really want to. When I discovered Cali had written a sequel to Trading Paper, I couldn't order it fast enough. I even paid for overnight shipping. Buying Time was everything I knew it would be - a poignant story from start to finish." ~ Misty
"I was in the Arabian horse business (big time) and can place all of the main characters Cali writes about. Believe me, there is no exaggeration in her books, as I think I was one of her characters! I can't decide if I'm glad she wrote these books or not...but if you read them, you'll definitely be entertained by the truth of the era." ~(name withheld by request)