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Deadrise (Paperback)
Series: Ben Blackshaw, 1
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Diving the frigid Chesapeake Bay for oysters soon after a late
season hurricane, former Navy SEAL Ben Blackshaw discovers the
fresh wreck of a speedboat mired on the bottom. It is jammed to the
gunwales with crates of gold bullion worth millions. Blackshaw
opens one last box from the wreck and finds a nuclear dirty bomb,
its timer racing down toward zero just twenty-four hours away. If
this were not enough, the final shock of the day comes when he
recognizes the corpse bobbing at the helm of the wreck; a man who
has been missing for fifteen years. Blackshaw's father. Piecing the
shreds of evidence together, Blackshaw reckons that his irascible
old man intercepted and stole both the gold and the nuke from an
Iran-Contra style government black-ops deal brokered between two
Islamist extremist cells by a corrupt U.S. Government cabal.
Maynard Chalk was the agent who let the transaction go south in a
moment of unforgiveable distraction. He's got to recover the cargo
as soon as possible, but to finish the job, he must temporarily
throw in with one of the terrorist crews from the deal gone wrong;
it's the only way he can conceal his failure from a vengeful boss
and save his own skin. Chalk and his jackal henchmen descend on the
quiet, god-fearing people of Blackshaw's isolated Smith Island
home, determined to take back what's theirs no matter what the cost
in innocent blood. Blackshaw and his wily Smith Island neighbors
must set aside a growing mistrust of each other in order to survive
and repel Chalk's invasion. Green-eyed suspicion naturally follows
an influx of untold wealth and ultimate power; this might play into
Chalk's hands, inciting murder and mutiny within Blackshaw's ranks.
After a rocky start, Blackshaw finally persuades a small cadre of
neighbors that their recent hardscrabble times could be set right
if they manage to keep this orphaned gold for themselves, and
somehow stop that nuclear bomb before it blows them out of the
Chesapeake. To accomplish all this, they reluctantly tap into Smith
Island's darker heritage from the distant past as home to marauding
pirates in the Chesapeake. Hundreds of years before they became
good Methodists, the Smith Islanders emigrated from Cornwall,
England. There, more than a few of their ancestors earned their
keep by pillaging what they needed from merchant ships unlucky
enough to sail without armed escort. Regrettably, the practice
lasted long after settling Smith Island. The present dire
circumstances set these good people at odds with their newfound and
deeply held religious teachings; they must connect with their inner
brigand or die. Mortally outgunned, and not seventy miles from
Washington, D.C., Blackshaw and his cohort are pitted in a
desperate last stand against Chalk and his bloodthirsty goons. If
Blackshaw fails, his gamble will go down in history as the opening
skirmish of World War III.
General
Imprint: |
Robert Whitehill an Imprint of Telemachus Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Ben Blackshaw, 1 |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
Robert Blake Whitehill
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
366 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-938701-39-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Adventure / thriller >
General
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LSN: |
1-938701-39-9 |
Barcode: |
9781938701399 |
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