Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #178206 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11
• Released on: 2005-09-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 340 pages

From the Publisher
From the Publisher

If it's the time of the year when Hurricanes blow you can usually find Jack at a sailor's bar in either Grenada or Trinidad, during the other half of the year he lives at anchor in the French West Indies, usually Martinique or the Saints, or maybe St. Martin. So when he writes about Caribbean Hurricanes, sailboats or the Caribbean Sea, he's writing from experience and it shows.

In Hurricane, Mr. Stewart has written 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 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: jackstewart@bootlegpress.com 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

From the Inside Flap
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.

Customer Reviews

Lots of Chase Scenes in this Action Packed Thriller
Julie Tanaka, her daughter Meiko and friend Tammy Drake are in a rubber dinghy off the coast of Trinidad in the Caribbean when they find a body floating at sea. They motor back to the Yacht Club and Julie's sailboat home when they are greeted by policemen. At first Julie thinks they are there because of the body, but how could they have known? Answer, they couldn't have. They are there to inform her that her husband, who had been delivering a boat to the States, has been lost at sea.

Julie and Meiko are devastated. Then they get a visit from DEA agent Bill Broxton, who tells them Julie's husband is suspected of smuggling drugs into America. Then somebody tries to kill Broxton, then a lawyer representing a shipyard shows up with papers to reposs Julie's boat, claiming her husband owed the shipyard a ton of money.

Julie doesn't believe this, but recognizes the law will probably back up the local shipyard, so she and Meiko sail out of the country in the dead of night. And thus begins a thriller that kept me burning the midnight oil. It seems the shipyard people have hidden drugs aboard the sailboat and they want them back, so they hire some very bad people go after the two women. Broxton too is hot on their trail in this book that is filled with lots of action and some terrific sailboat chase scenes. I couldn't put it down. I loved the story, the people, the fast-paced writing, the action and the surprise ending.

A Real Sitting on the Edge of Your Seat Thriller
I read this book in one evening, held captive by the events happening in the beginning and the hurricane I knew that was coming at the end. Not much of a mystery, a little one kind of, but more an action thriller that'll grab you right from the get go and keep you enthralled right up till the end.

The characters were well drawn and believable, the ending a surprise and the action tense. What more could you want in a thriller. This is really, sitting on the edge of your seat stuff.

Drug Smugglers and a Hurricane What a Ride!

I thought this was a great book, but not a super book. That's why I hesitated and gave it 4 stars. The action and the characters were just great and the story was full of suspense. Of course you have the evil men and the women in trouble and then on top of that you have a very bad hurricane to boot. I read it non-stop and maybe it will keep you up till the weee hours also. It's a great story that you will remember long after you have finished reading the last page.