Summer Storms A Caribbean Sailing Thriller

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About Summer Storms A Caribbean Sailing Thriller

A novel of adventure and deceit where political intrigue and double dealing in a Caribbean paradise are made more gripping by the desperate moments when characters must sail cunningly out of harm's way if they are to survive. At the heart of this story are a handful of very different people: a laconic English sailor; a recuperating American marine; a tough Dutch soldier; and two very smart police detectives from Martinique. The characters form unlikely alliances with one another as the plot unfolds. And to add to this international cast there is an unlikely walk-on role by the Carib-indians' frightening god, Huracan.Smuggling and piracy, murder and tempests, espionage and extraordinary rendition, covert Great Power bullying and stubborn island pride, all force ordinary people into extraordinary action and thence to be bigger than they ever thought they could be. Something rotten lies deep down in these luscious Caribbean islands. In this climate morality depends on ordinary people. Things happen by chance to all of us in whatever world we inhabit. This story begins when some very chance events threaten to engulf our English hero. The dual threads of the plot converge as the English sailor and American marine at the centre of the actions are sucked into the great play of real politique.Fact often overhauls fiction, especially in the Caribbean. Tens of thousands have been killed on the Mexican border in drug wars; US drones in use over Mexico are denied by the Mexican president; CIA agents lied to Congress over US support to the Contras, were pardoned by President Bush senior and brought back into service by President Bush junior; a US congressman exposed the case President Reagan made for invading Grenada in 1983 as insubstantial. It is possible that a Trinidad prime minister paid for smuggled weapons for the army from his own salary. It is not impossible that the whole raft of economic and financial agencies set up by the US to deal with sovereign Caribbean nations was to encourage support for extraordinary rendition in their war on terror.It would be hard to say where reality ends in this novel and fiction begins.

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