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A story that bristles with all the heat and tension of a tropical Florida summer--destined to rank among the greatest suspense thrillers of the new decade.
The Braswell Family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. Until their eldest son, the family's shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. When he disappeared--hauled into the depths by the giant marlin he had been fighting--he took with him a secret so corrupt that it could destroy the Braswells.
Ten years later, a huge airliner crashes in the steamy shallows off the Florida coast. Helping pull survivors from the water, Thorn finds himself drawn in a twisted conspiracy: someone has developed a high-tech weapon capable of destroying electrical systems in a powerful flash. The terrorist potential is huge. How are the secretive Braswells and their family-owned company, MicroDyne, involved? And what does it have to do with the family's obsessive hunt for the great marlin that killed their golden boy?
With the Braswells, James W. Hall introduces one of the most evil and dysfuntional families in the history of fiction. And along with Thorn, he brings back favorite characters from his earlier books, including Alexandra Rafferty and her father, Lawton Collins, a retired and increasingly dotty former police investigator whose methods of investigation result in his kidnapping. A story that bristles with all the heat and tension of a tropical Florida summer, Blackwater Sound is destined to rank among the greatest suspense thrillers of the new decade.
Dennis Lehane
... sleek and relentlessly propulsive... James Lee Burke
...no one has written more lyrically of the Gulfstream since Ernest Hemmingway...a wonderful reading experience... Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of A Darkness More Than Night and Angels Flight
With beautiful prose and a heavily muscled story, it moves with the grandeur and unpredictability of a [killer] marlin. Robert Crais, bestselling author of L.A. Requiem and Demolition Angel
No writer working today...more clearly evokes the shadows and loss that hide within the human heart. Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof
If you don't know the fine suspense novels of James W. Hall, this will get you off to a rousing start.
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