Hurricane [Paperback]

Ken Douglas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2008

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

Hurricane is 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 Ken Douglas and I've killed Jack Stewart. It was hard, he was a nice guy, but he had to go.

When HURRICANE first came out, I had a problem. I'd lived several years on a sailboat in the Caribbean, writing away. Too many books, it turns out to be released at onetime under my own name. So I invented Jack Stewart.

Jack is a character in on of my stories, still unpublished, but someday. The photo I used on line was of my good friend Dick Macpartland, who passed away at a very young fifty-four. Dick was a smuggler, pirate, real shoot 'em up outlaw, who smoked too many Camels. Using his photo was a way for me to kind of keep him around.

Now it's been a couple three years and some of my readers have figured it out, that Jack and I are one and the same, so sadly, I've changed the cover, changed the name on the book and killed of Jack Stewart. I'll miss him.

I hope you like HURRICANE,

Ken Douglas

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Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Bootleg Press (April 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976277956
• ISBN-13: 978-0976277958
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #637,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good quick read, July 5, 2008

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This an exciting book which reads quickly. It seems a bit dated -- the sort
of book that might have been written for one of the paperback mills in the 1960's -- but it is enjoyable and makes for a good beach or vacation read. A surprising number of people get killed...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast and Exciting, August 15, 2010

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Shane Shogren (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews
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Hideo Tanaka is working for a Trinidadian shipyard when the boat he is delivering from the Caribbean to California blows up of the Southern California coast. When the authorities investigate they find that the boat was being used to smuggle drugs into the United States. Suspecting that this is just the tip of the iceberg, the DEA sends Bill Broxton to Trinidad, where he discovers Tanaka's American born wife Julie and her step-daughter Meiko living on a sailboat in the yacht club there. Julie and Meiko are novice sailors, in fact they don't know much about sailing at all.

Right after Broxton questions the two women a local lawyer tries to serve papers to Julie. He claims the boat has been confiscated because of shipyard bills owed. Julie and Meiko don't believe him and they leave the country during the darkness of night, however what they don't know is that the owner of the shipyard is behind the cocaine smuggling and he sends some very bad people out after them.

Meanwhile Broxton has been framed for murder and getting caught and jailed in Trinidad is the last thing he wants, so he too sneaks out of the country, both running from the law and chasing after the bad guys who are after the good girls. I hope that's not too confusing for you, it makes a lot more sense when you're reading it, which I did in two sittings. You should check this book out, I think you'll like it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pulse Racing Thriller, April 12, 2010

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Island Dreamer (Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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"Hurricane" is about two daring women who are running from dangerous drug smugglers in the Caribbean. Beth and her step-daughter Noel, who is only a few years younger than Beth, are left with only their sailboat when Beth's husband dies of a heart attack in Trinidad. What the women don't know is that members of the Salizar Drug Cartel have hidden a small fortune's worth of cocaine aboard. The smugglers try to get the boat by legal means, but the women sneak the boat out of the country during the night and the chase is on. This exciting thriller will get your heart a beating to beat the band, that's for sure. I loved it and I think you will too.