The bottom of the Florida Straits is nearly a mile deep. Watch out for danger below...

Charley Manner finds trouble in the Deep Strait when DEA Agent Vicky Borne returns from FAST team training at Quantico with a request. She’s out for revenge for the rape and torture delivered by Mexican drug lord Jose Guizarro during her last op and wants Charley's help to track him down. Enroute to Guizarro’s headquarters on Cozumel they stumble upon a secret transfer station forty miles south of Key West. What they find in the depths beneath a deep water oil platform is far more life-threatening than illegal drugs.

Hundreds of containers filled with radioactive material that are about to be set free from a holding pen, 3000 feet below the surface, and drift through the straits carried along by the powerful Gulf Stream current. The entire southeastern coast of the U.S. will be exposed, with potential to continue past the mid-Atlantic states up to valuable New England fishing grounds and the Grand Banks.

Half the world’s most productive fishing grounds will be destroyed unless Charley and friends can stop the terrorists plan to detonate their cache in the Deep Strait.

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Charley Manner is separated from his SEAL team during an ambush in the Khyber Pass. His war dog is wounded and one mate is killed. The rest of the team is extracted under heavy fire, leaving Charley behind. Captured and tortured by the Taliban, he is left to die in a hole filled with human excrement and rotting body parts, deep in a cave on a Spin Ghar mountain.

The events in the story take place two years before Trouble on the Straits, Book #1 in the Charley Manner Action Adventure series, and are based on fictional special operations missions in Afghanistan prior to U.S. troop withdrawal in 2014.

The prequel ends with Charley's return to civilian life and retirement in the Florida Keys. Ready for a fishing bum's life after what he went through in Afghanistan, Charley simplifies.

A Harley for wheels, a Winnebago for digs and an Ocean 35 Sportfisher provide the essentials. Friends and his sister Katie are his only family. Enough to make a new life in paradise, before he finds trouble on the straits.

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Navy SEAL Charley Manner's retirement in the Florida Keys turns deadly when he discovers a body with a hidden treasure map.

A Cuban drug lord wants the map and kidnaps Charley's sister, leading him across the Florida Straits to Cay Sal Bank and then into Cuba.

Charley's SEAL training prepared him for dangerous situations but the trouble he finds on and under the Straits may be more than he can handle.

Fast boats, shark encounters, underwater rescues, deadly gunplay, a sexy DEA agent and more, make this thriller a high speed page turner ideal for your next beach-read or afternoon by the pool.

Clive Cussler fans will enjoy this sea adventure. Here's what one five-star-review-reader said: "Trouble on the Straits, leans to my Cussler enjoyment - I liked that one so much I bought the author's next book too!"

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Charley Manner’s sister, Katie, is abducted by an old enemy seeking revenge against Charley and friends for interfering with the terrorist’s plans to release radioactive waste in the Deep Strait forty miles south of Key West.

(see Book #2 of the Charley Manner series and the prequel, Hellhole in Khyber, for the full background).

Charley's warrior dog, Spirit, is on the case. She finds trouble on Big Pine Key, fifteen miles from home-base at Marathon Marina. She tracked Katie’s scent to an abandoned warehouse in the southern tip of the Key.

The action and danger is intense, but nothing a seasoned Belgian-Malinois Navy SEAL warrior dog can't handle.

Canine Courage is a non-stop thriller with many scenes narrated from the dog’s point of view. Find out what Spirit must overcome to save Katie and how she courageously protects everyone she loves. Written in Michael Marnier’s unputdownable style, the scenes fly by grabbing your interest until you have finished.

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A UK reader posted the following review on Amazon UK. Since those reviews do not show on Amazon.com, I have pasted it here to help potential future readers decide to buy.

CANINE COURAGE is action-packed from the opening page - something we have come to expect from Marnier's Charley Manner series of adventure stories. In this latest addition, Charley's nemesis, the mad Mullah, returns to threaten not ony Charley's immediate family but also the security of the nation as he carries out his jihad.

Charley's only back-up is Spirit, a retired Military Working Dog and his constant companion. Spirit's indomitable courage and resilience are more than a match for any terrorist - especially one as incompetent as Mullah. But along the way there are a hurricane, a Burmese python and two dirty bombs to contend with as well, which makes this such a gripping read.

The sun-kissed Florida Straits act as a contrasting but effective backdrop to a tale of dark doings. CANINE COURAGE might come across as a flight of fancy, but it remains in touch with current world events and serves as a timely reminder of the sacrifices made by the military services in maintaining peace both on home soil and overseas.