Hurricane [Paperback]

Jack Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 2005

Julie Tanaka's husband takes a job for a boatyard in Trinidad, delivering a yacht to California. The boat goes down, his body is washed up on the beach with pounds of cocaine and the DEA sends Bill Broxton to investigate. Julie is in Trinidad, living on board her own boat, when a process server representing the boatyard confronts her. They want to seize her sixty-foot sailboat for bills her husband had supposedly not paid, but she doesn't believe them and sneaks the boat out of the country. Unknown to Julie, the owner of the boatyard has secreted hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine and cash in Julie's boat, fiberglassing it into the hull and between the bulkheads. He wants the boat back with Julie dead and the only thing standing in his way is Bill Broxton.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

From the Publisher

If it's the time of the year when Hurricanes blow you can usually find Jack at a sailor's bar in either Grenada or Trinidad, during the other half of the year he lives at anchor in the French West Indies, usually Martinique or the Saints, or maybe St. Martin. So when he writes about Caribbean Hurricanes, sailboats or the Caribbean Sea, he's writing from experience and it shows.

In Hurricane, Mr. Stewart has written a thriller about two women in trouble. They are not experienced sailors, but circumstances have them at sea, fleeing from drug smugglers as they race toward St. Martin while Hurricane Darlene charges across the Atlantic, blowing in the same direction. You can almost hear the thrashing sea, feel the sting of the howling wind, see the darkening sky as your fingers burn through the pages.

Hurricane is a thriller of the first order and we believe if you give it a chance, you'll enjoy it, however you'll probably miss a night's sleep. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Sincerely,

Bootleg Press

From the Author

My name is Jack Stewart. I live on a sailboat in the Caribbean. I'm what they call a single-hander, an odd ball, a guy that sails alone. It's not that I don't like women, I do. I just like a different one in every port. Wait! does that sound sexist, I didn't mean it to sound that way. It's just that I was married to the finest woman that ever lived for twenty-three years. She's gone now, cancer. I could never deal with all that pain again, so now all my relationships are like ships passing in the night.

I didn't start writing till the love of my life passed. It seems like all of a sudden I had an urge to entertain, you know to take my mind and the mind of others off the daily grind of ordinary living. I'm no Hemingway, no Mailer. I don't write because I've got something important to say, or to educate, or to influence. I write to entertain, only to entertain. It's enough. And if I help a person here or there to escape his pain or sorrow, or even if I just help someone wile away a boring afternoon, I'll feel like I've done my job.

If you like one of my stories, feel free to email me at: [e-mail] and let me know. If, on the other hand, you don't, well, e-mail me anyway. I answer all my messages.

Best wishes and fair winds,

Jack Stewart

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Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Bootleg Press (September 12, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974524670
• ISBN-13: 978-0974524672
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,537,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Broxton is Back, Hooray!, September 24, 2004

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Beth Saboori (Santa Monica, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hurricane (Paperback)

Bill Broxton, my favorite DEA agent comes back from his debut in "Scorpion." He's back in the Caribbean and he's unattached again. I thought he was going to live happily ever after with the girl from the last book, but it appears, that like James Bond, he's destined to have a different girl in each book.

In this one Broxton wants to know why Hideo Tanaka washed up on a California beach after a sailboat he was on was recovered full of cocaine. Tanaka lived with his American wife Julie on a sailboat in the Yacht Club in Trinidad. When he goes there to confront Tanaka's wife, he finds Julie onboard with her daughter Meiko, who is visiting on break from medical school. The women tell him, and he believes them, that they knew nothing of Tanaka's drug activities. He leaves, but someone takes a couple shots at him before he can leave the Yacht Club. He gives chase, dispatches the bad guy and in no time finds himself wanted for murder in a country that hangs killers. To make matters worse, Julie and Meiko have fled the country on their boat with very bad drug smugglers chasing after them.

Broxton has no choice but to team up with a likable rouge named T-Bone, who is kind of a drug smuggler himself. T-Bone's sailboat is stuffed full of marijuana that he'd planned on taking from Trinidad up island to St. Martin. So now we have Broxton on a drug boat in hot pursuit of the bad guys, who are chasing the damsels in distress, who are sailing toward St. Martin and did I forget to mention that big bad Hurricane Darlene is headed straight for St. Martin as well.

And there you have a very brief synopsis of a super thriller that had me reading my weekend away. "Hurricane" was a fast read about characters I cared about. The dialogue was crisp, the story believable and the action fast and furious. I felt like I was on those sailboats and I really felt like I was caught up in the middle of that Hurricane.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Didn't I read this before. . ., April 25, 2006

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Sowdogs (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hurricane (Paperback)

I stumbled upon Jack Stewart, have read several of his books and thoroughly enjoyed them. As I'm reading Hurricane, I keep getting the feeling I've read it before, knowing that I haven't. After a little research, yes I have read it before it was named Diamond Sky - the names have changed (a little) and instead of cocaine it was diamonds, but the plot is exactly the same. Come on Mr. Stewart. . .you can do better than that!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Drug Smugglers and a Hurricane What a Ride!, June 14, 2007

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ReadMyWay (Miami, Fl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hurricane (Paperback)

I thought this was a great book, but not a super book. That's why I hesitated and gave it 4 stars. The action and the characters were just great and the story was full of suspense. Of course you have the evil men and the women in trouble and then on top of that you have a very bad hurricane to boot. I read it non-stop and maybe it will keep you up till the weee hours also. It's a great story that you will remember long after you have finished reading the last page.