Scorpion (Paperback)

by Jack Stewart (Author)
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Somewhere over the Caribbean Sea. A bomb goes off in the 747, oxygen masks fall. DEA agent Bill Broxton grabs onto Maria Lawson, the passing flight attendant, wrestles her into his lap, then into the adjacent seat. Once she's safely strapped in, he turns and checks the rear of the first class section as the pilot struggles to get the plane under control. Broxton is worried about the safety of the Prime Minister as he has orders to try and keep him alive.

The Prime Minister of Trinidad is trying to end the drug trade in his country and that has put him on the Salizar drug cartel's hit list. They've hired the infamous international assassin called the Scorpion to take him out. Satisfied the PM is safe for the moment, he turns to Maria, notices the black eye she's tried to cover with make up and pries out of her the fact that she's married to an abusive SOB and he convinces her to leave him, then later, on the ground, after a harrowing landing, Maria calls her West Texan small town Sheriff husband and tells him she's not coming home.

Solitude, West Texas. Sheriff Earl Lawson and a deputy raid a warehouse where they suspect they'll find drugs and stolen goods. There is a shoot out, one of the two criminals is shot. When Earl finds a briefcase full of money, he kills the remaining crook, then after a struggle, the deputy. When he gets home, he plays the messages on his answer machine and finds out his wife isn't coming back. Angry, he buys a ticket to Trinidad.

Trinidad, West Indies. Broxton shares a taxi with Maria to the Hilton and someone tries to run them off the road. Later, at the American Embassy, Broxton checks in with his old friend, Warren Street, the American Ambassador. It is because of his friendship with the ambassador that the DEA picked Broxton, an analyst and not a field agent, for this assignment. Broxton can't wait to see Warren's daughter Dani, as he plans on proposing marriage.

What Broxton doesn't know is that Dani is the Scorpion and that she has been paid to kill the very man he's been assigned to protect. She has killed political leaders before, she's a pro, but she can't kill Prime Minister Ramsingh because he is an old family friend. She can use a bomb as killing by remote control is different than putting the man in her cross hairs.

Earl arrives in Trinidad, sees Maria with Broxton out at the hotel pool, watches them from the bar, asks questions about the man she's with. A pretty woman seems to be flirting with him, but she leaves. Earl goes up to his room and is confronted by Dani, the pretty woman. She has gone through his things, found his money and discovered, much to Earl's chagrin that it's counterfeit. She tells Earl she knows a way he can make it real and have so much more.

"Who do I have to kill," he asks.

"The Prime Minister of Trinidad," she says.

"I could do that," he says.

And thus begins the partnership of two truly deranged people. Dani finds a mirror of herself in Earl, just one look at her and Earl forgets the wife he'd come so far to drag back to Texas. He is a changed man, in a changed relationship. Besides, he knows if he raises a fist to Dani, it will be the last thing he ever does. Then there is the money to consider.

SCOPRION is a character driven thriller that will have you tasting the salty air as you sail the Caribbean sea with Broxton and the Prime Minister as they flee the assassins and it'll have your blood speeding through your veins as you race along with Broxton and Maria in a desperate effort to save Prime Minister Ramsingh from the Scorpion in a thrilling climax you'll never forget.

From the Publisher
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

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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 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #437,909 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Doggone Good Sea-Going Adventure Tale, September 22, 2005

By	Tiffany Ann (Black Diamond Bay) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Bill Broxton is a DEA agent who has been assingned to protect Prime Minister Ramsingh of Trinidad. His superiors want the man protected, because he has been co-operating in the war against drugs. They've learned that the drug barons from the Salazr Cartel want the prime minister dead, but Ramsingh complicates Broxton's life by refusing his protection, as he believes his own justice minister can do the job.

Meanwhile the drug lords have hired the international assassin called the Scorpion to assissananate Ramsingh and guess who is part of the cartel. You guessed it, none other than that justice minister who Ramsingh is counting on for protection. Now make the mix here a bit more interesting by making the Scorpion the girl Broxton wants to marry and you really have the makings of a good story. One I couldn't put down.

This book takes place in the Caribbean and Mr. Stewart uses quite a bit of sailing terms in the book, but he does it in such a way that it adds, rather than detracts from the story. It's easy to see he knows what he's talking about when he describes the scenes at sea. In addition to the convincing scene setting and description, Stewart has also painted people we care about and who seem real. I enjoyed this sea-going adventure story and I think you will too.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Stole Away A Very Long Plane Ride, December 4, 2004

By	Stephanie Sane (from the Asylum) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I read "Hurricane" a couple months ago, and since that was the second story about DEA agent Bill Broxton, I figured I already knew all I needed to know about him, so there was no point in going back and reading the first one. Boy was I ever wrong.

"Hurricane" was a darned good book, but much to my surprise, "Scorpion" was better. I bought them at the same time, and because I'd read the second one first, I just shelved "Scorpion" not bringing it out till I had to take a long plane ride to Madrid. First off, let me tell you this, you definitely don't want to be reading the first couple chapters as you're taxing down the runway on a jet plane. A bomb goes off, oxygen mask fall, yeah this isn't the kind of stuff you want to be soaking up when you are in the air. I'm not a big fan of flying anyway, so when those fictional masks fell, my eyes went upward, then I started checking out the other passengers. They were all so calm.

After I got past the harrowing plane ride and the eventual safe landing, I breathed a sigh of relieve, ordered a Bloody Mary from the flight attendant and went back to the story, where I stayed till we hit some turbulence. Whew, turbulence, I hate that. Then I went back to the book again, finishing it just as the captain turned on the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign for our landing in Madrid. The story stole my flight away and what a wonderful thing that was. It is just so much better to be chasing assassins, finding lovers and fighting bad guys, than it is to be cooped up in an aluminum tube, hurtling through the sky at six-hundred miles an hour.

I just loved this book.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Read this Book on a Plane, May 25, 2005

By	Shino Marie Tanaka (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book opens with the most harrowing chapter I have ever read. Our main two characters are in a plane, a bomb has gone off, the oxygen masks have fallen. People are scared. I felt it. My spine tingled. My palms got sweaty. By the end of that chapter I was so into the characters that there was no way I was gonna put the book down. There's no way I'm getting on an airplane for a long time either.

DEA agent Bill Broxton is going to Trinidad to propose to the girl of his dreams. He is also on assignment. His job, protect the Prime Minister of that island nation from an international assassin, called the Scorpion, who is, though he doesn't know it, the girl of his dreams. And if you don't think that makes for interesting reading. Think again. I loved this book, read it in one sitting, and I'm going out tomorrow for "Hurricane," so that I can get still another dose of Broxton and his adventures. Give Jack Stewart a read, you won't be disappointed.