"Exhilarating thriller"
In Bell Harbor, Florida, only four months out of law
school, attorney Dan Shaw hates his job. His clients
consist of losers or mentally challenged sent to him by
other lawyers to work plea bargains. His last two patrons
put him over the edge when one wants to sue the CIA for
placing a microchip in her womb and the other has no idea
how a meth lab ended up in his garage. Dan needs to
escape especially since his former fiancée married someone
else and the local cops show interest in a deadly incident
involving him in Italy. Dan sails the Caribbean on his boat the Roamer when he
sees a naked woman swimming towards him 85 miles from any
land. He brings her on board and treats her dehydration
and numerous jelly fish bites. She is Katherine Adams-
Cardinal who has been reported missing by her spouse.
Kate tells Dan that her husband threw her off their ship,
blaming her falling over board on alcohol. She wants to
return to her home in Santo Domingo to get her child back
from her husband; Dan agrees to help her though he knows
how deadly this Cesar is. THE BLOOD RED SEA is an exhilarating thriller that starts
off as a legal tale, but quickly turns into a tense
romantic suspense. The story line turns from tongue in
cheek humor to non-stop action from the moment that
Kate "rescues" herself from the sea and never slows down
until the final confrontation. Though the characters are
never fully developed even Dan seems to be missing a bicep
or two, no one will care as readers will appreciate Ron
Faust's fine tale. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 10, 2005
SummaryDan Shaw has been practicing law only four months and he's
already burned-out. Add the fact that he's just lost his
girlfriend and the cops are scouring his dubious past, and
it's no wonder Shaw decides to set sail for the summer.
But even alone in the middle of the sea, trouble finds
him.
She's naked, nearly drowned, and has little memory as to
how she got that way. But the real story is even more
twisted. Cesar Cardinal is a diplomat who takes diplomatic
immunity literally. A playboy and high-stakes gambler,
he's feigned his wife's suicide at sea and taken their
young son to a heavily armed compound in the Dominican
Republic, where U.S. law can't touch him. But that's not
going to stop Shaw. From Bell Harbor to Monte Carlo, he's
baiting a trap with his own life...and there's no telling
what he'll catch.
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