The Blood Red Sea (The Dan Shaw Thrillers) - Softcover

Faust, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620454505 ISBN 13: 9781620454503

Publisher: Turner, 2014

Synopsis

A Dan Shaw Thriller
In this enticing thriller, Dan Shaw risks the deep waters of wealth, deception, and murder off the Gold Coast to see rustic done for a beautiful woman.
Dan Shaw has been practicing law only four months and he’s already burned out. Add the fact that he’s just lost his longtime girlfriend and the cops are scouring his dubious past, and it’s no wonder that Shaw decides to set sail for the summer and get away from it all. But even alone in the middle of the sea, trouble finds him—in the enticing form of Katherine Adams. When Shaw hauls her out of the ocean, she’s naked, nearly drowned, and has little memory as to how she got that way. But the real story is even more twisted. Her husband, Cesar Cardinal, is a diplomat, a playboy, and a high-stakes gambler. He’s feigned his wife’s suicide at sea and taken their young son to a heavily armed compound in the Dominican Republic, where U.S. law can’t touch him. But that’s not going to stop Shaw, who can’t deny his feelings for Katherine. From Bell Harbor to Santo Domingo, he’s baiting a trap with his own life . . . and there’s no telling what he’ll catch.

About this title

About the Author

RON FAUST is the author of fourteen previous thrillers. He has been praised for his “rare and remarkable talent” (Los Angeles Times), and several of his books have been optioned for films. Before he began writing, he played professional baseball and worked at newspapers in Colorado Springs, San Diego, and Key West.

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I returned to the cockpit and tried to get comfortable. Again the night was almost totally silent. There was just the gentle creaking of the boat, the occasional slap of water against the hull, and beyond that a silence that itself seemed to vibrate. An airliner, lights flashing, descended toward Puerto Rico, but I heard nothing. The plane was too high for sound to carry down to me.

I went below to get a bottle of water, and when I returned to the deck I noticed an object off the starboard beam. I didn’t recognize it at first: It might have been a bag of trash jettisoned from a distant ship; a dead or injured animal, a shark or squid or dolphin; debris of some sort. Whatever, a ring of phosphorescence spread out from the pale core. Then I recognized the human form and for an instant assumed that it was a corpse, a floater. Alive? Impossible. We were eighty-five miles from land. The movement of its limbs, the feeble thrashing, were a result of the current. Closer now, and I heard harsh breathing that turned to whimpers on the exhalations. She was naked, very pale, corpse-white in that dark, jellied sea, and her skin and hair sparkled with plankton. Very close now, she lifted a hand, an arm, a pale face that exhaustion had tautened into a death mask. Her fingernails scratched at the hull.

Edition details

• Publisher: Turner
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620454505
• ISBN 13: 9781620454503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352