Scorpion [Paperback]

Jack Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 13, 2005

The blast ricochets through the plane. A Bomb. Bill Broxton looks to the last row in first class, checks to see if the prime minister is safe. Broxton works for the DEA and his assignment is to protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from an assassin's bullet. Prime Minister Ramsingh has been shutting down the Salizar drug cartel's money laundering operations in Trinidad and Attorney General George Chandee, who is secretly working with the drug lords, has hired Scorpion, a professional assassin to take him out. After a harrowing ride, the pilot lands the plane safely. The Scorpion's first attempt on the prime minister has failed, but he will try again. And Broxton must stop him.

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Bill Broxton is the DEA agent assigned to protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from the Salizar drug cartel. They are using Trinidad as staging area to get their product into the United States, however, they are leaving a lot of their cocaine behind in the small island nation and Prime Minister Ramsingh has sworn to put an end to it.

George Chandee is the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. He is secretly working with the Salizar drug cartel. His reward in aiding them in killing the PM, the prime minister's job.

Dani Street is the daughter of the American Ambassador to Trinidad. She is also the girl Broxton is in love with. He plans on asking her to marry him when he gets to Trinidad. What he doesn't know is that she leads a secret life as the international assassin known only as the Scorpion. She has been hired by Chandee and the drug barons to assassinate the prime minister.

SCORPION is a thriller that will grab you from page one and it won't let you go until the chilling climax. We at Bootleg Press sincerely believe this, and we're not just saying it because it's what were supposed to say. Give the book a try, we think you'll like it, we think you'll be back for more.

Thank you for reading,

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 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097452462X
• ISBN-13: 978-0974524627
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,389,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Love of His Life is an Assassin, Only He doesn't Know it, April 25, 2004

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Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scorpion (Paperback)

Once again I have to declare my bias for a book because I know the author. Well at least this time it's not my husband, but a friend. But even if Jack Stewart and I weren't such good friends, I'd still give Scorpion five stars. It's a terrific adventure thriller that takes place in the Caribbean where I lived for ten years on a sailboat, so of course the book grabbed me right from the get go. This is Jack's first book, but certainly not the first thing that old pirate has ever written. He's an excellent short story writer and if you ever come across one of his self-published collections, you'll have a treasure, though the couple I've seen were pretty battered, having been passed along from cruising sailor to cruising sailor in the Caribbean. Anyway with my bias declared, let me get on with my report.

Bill Broxton grabs his seatbelt, cinches it tighter, as the sound of the explosion rips through the plane. Bomb is his first thought and bomb it was. He grabs the passing flight attendent, pulls her into his lap, wrestles her into the unoccupied seat next to his, helps her strap in. Then he turns toward the back of the first class section to see if Trinidad's Prime Minister Ramsingh is all right. Broxton is a DEA agent and he has been assigned the difficult job of keeping Ramsingh alive. Difficult, because Ramsingh doesn't want American help or protection in his war against the Colombian drug cartel that is flooding his country with their product, then reshipping it to the United States.

The Salazar drug cartel wants Ramsingh dead so badly, that they'll takeout a plane load of passengers along with him, if that's what they have to do to achieve their objective. However, fortunately for Ramsingh, Broxton and the rest of the passengers, the pilot is able to land the plane safely at Trinidad's Piarco Airport.

On arrival Broxton gets a cab to the American Ambassador's residence and he barely gets there with his life. Someone doesn't want him interfering. The Ambassador is an old friend and father of the girl he plans to marry. He tells the Ambassador that U.S. intelligence has found out that the international assassin known only as the Scorpion has targeted Ramsingh and that the prime minister has refused American help. It's a difficult job Broxton has, protecting someone who doesn't want protecting, and it's made all the more difficult because the Scorpion is none other than the Ambassador's daughter, the girl he loves.

SCORPION is a stay up all night thriller that I highly recommend. It's a fast, fun read and I'd say that even if I didn't know the author. As I said above, five stars from me for this one. I hope you try it and I hope you like it as much as I did.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Action Packed Book!, January 16, 2005

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Melvin Hunt (Cleveland,, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scorpion (Paperback)

Bill Broxton is a DEA agent who has been assigned the duty of protecting the Prime Minister of Trinidad Ramsing.On a flight to
Trinidad a bomb goes off.During this crisis Broxton saves Maria
Lawson.He notices that she has a blackeye.This shiner has been
given to her by her husband Sheriff Earl Lawson.Broxton is also
flying to Trinidad to ask his childhood sweetheart Dani Street to marry him.
Unknown to him Dani is really the hired assassin "The Scorpion".Shen has been responsible for several paid killings on
a worldwide basis.
Maria informs her husband Sheriff Earl Lawson that she is not
coming home.Earl flies to Trinidad to find his wife.He winds up
being a joint assassin with the Scorpion,Dani Street.
Several attempts are made to kill Prime Minister Ramsing but
Broxton saves the Prime Minister each time.The sinister force behind the assassination attempts is Attorney General George
Chandee.He is on the payroll of the Salizar drug ring.
This is a very entertaining book.It is handled by Bootleg Press.I was very pleased with their product.This book will keep
you on the edge of youe seat.Buy it and read it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Thrilling Grabber, December 3, 2004

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Marrilou Frye (Swansboro, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scorpion (Paperback)

Bill Broxton is a DEA agent with an impossible task. He's supposed to protect the prime minister of Trinidad from an assassin, who has been hired to kill him because he is clamping down on the drug lords that have been using his country as a vehicle to get their evil cargo into the United States. However he has two big problems. One, the PM doesn't want his help and two, the assassin happens to be Dani Stewart, the woman he wants to marry. He, of course, does not know this.

Dani is the daughter of the American Ambassador and she has been using her position to travel the world, killing for the highest bidder, but though she has a heart of steel, she has a soft spot for Broxton and doesn't want him hurt. Broxton convinces the prime minister to accept his help and Dani teams up with a rogue cop from America. Broxton and the PM go to Venezuela as the PM has to sign a treaty. Dani and her cop follow and what follows after that is an attempted assassination, a chase scene by car, then by sailboat, then another assassination attempt and so on till the thrilling climax.

This is a thriller, not much mystery here, but that was okay by me, because the book was a grabber, you know, it grabbed my attention, sucked me right in and held on for all three hundred and twenty-four pages. I will be looking for more books by Mr. Stewart in the future.