Tropical paradise or dangerous battleground? Basking in the Caribbean sun during his retirement, J.D. Blunt, the former director of a U.S. covert agency, thought his days of intrigue were behind him. But when strange shipments of illegal weapons begin surfacing on islands across the region, Blunt receives an urgent call from an old friend requesting help. Someone is planning an attack on American soil, and Blunt is the only one with the connections to find out who's behind it. Reluctantly trading lazy days fishing for the gritty underworld of black market arms deals, Blunt dredges up old contacts from his spy days. He follows a trail of cryptic clues pointing to a shadowy group of mercenaries gearing up for their deadliest operation yet. Outnumbered and outgunned, Blunt races against the clock to uncover their target and motive, pitting his wits against a lethal new breed of adversary. Failure means death and destruction on an unimaginable scale. And Blunt must go to whatever lengths necessary to ensure that doesn't happen.
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*** Signup for my newsletter and receive a free copy of The Warren Omissions, the first book in my James Flynn thriller series, by visiting http://eepurl.com/bZwpdf *** THE FIRST SIGNS that I might like writing—and that I might be slightly competitive—appeared when my year two (or first grade) teacher, Mrs. Holland, asked my class to write and illustrate our day. Mine read like this: “The Red team beat the Blue team, 1 to nil. And I won.” The next 47 entries covered my exploits on the soccer pitch while growing up in Ipswich, England. In South Carolina as a teenager, my dad told me that I could get paid to watch sports provided I could write about it. Sounded easy enough and by the time I was 16, I landed a job at my town’s daily newspaper and had a column on Major League Baseball players from our area. I also covered my first riot there at a sporting event—and it’s safe to say I was smitten with journalism. After graduating from one of the best journalism schools in the country, I took a job as a sports editor in South Georgia and learned firsthand about the passion of high school sports in rural America. I thought I knew before, but I didn’t. This was another world. I also had the opportunity to cover major sporting events like the Olympic Games, the World Series, the Super Bowl, and the Final Four. It was a thrill! But nothing was as thrilling to me as uncovering the truth in investigative assignments. I once broke a story about a prominent southern football team’s NCAA violation—and found out the violating coach had committed suicide only a few months earlier. The story won a national writing award and stoked my desire to write about these issues. It made me realize that the sports world was just another fantastic backdrop for drama. After writing non-fiction books with athletes, for athletes, and ghost writing for many others, I decided to enter the world of fiction writing. It had been something I wanted to do but never found the time. So, I made the time—and had a blast in the process. I’m not out to become the next Faulkner or Hemingway—I’m just out to tell a good story. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them!
