Hello readers all,

My name is Kelly Irish and I’m a Bootleg Girl. I work for Bootleg Press in Portland, Oregon and it’s part of my job to try and figure out ways to promote our books, and that leads me to making a guide here for 'Hurricane'. Jack Stewart is one of our first three authors, we have more coming up in the near future, and he writes thrillers, usually the kind involving a fast sailboat that take place in the Caribbean.

'Hurricane' is a super thriller that will have you reading the night away and leaving you wanting more. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a Bootleg Girl, I really mean it, this is a fast-paced story stuffed full of action and suspense. Read the synopsis below and you’ll see what I mean.

Happy reading to you all,

Kelly, the Bootleg Girl, Irish

HURRICANE, Jack Stewart

Julie Tanaka lives on a sailboat in the Caribbean with her husband Hideo. He is away, delivering a sailboat to California and her daughter Meiko is visiting during a break in her college education. They are playing in their dinghy, zooming as fast as they can off the western coast of Trinidad, when they discover a body floating in the water. They hurry back to the marina, only to find the police waiting. However they are not there for the dead man, instead they inform Julie that her husband has been killed along with two known drug smugglers when the boat he was delivering blew up off the California coast.

Before the women get a chance to digest this tragic information, DEA agent Bill Broxton shows up at their boat wanting to question Julie about her Japanese American husband. Julie is furious, sends him away. The police come back, then an attorney representing TYS, Trinidad Yacht Services shows up with papers that say the women have to leave the boat, as it's been confiscated because of debts owed the shipyard. Julie knows the papers are false, so she and Meiko sneak the boat out of the country.

TYS is owned by German crooks who are in cahoots with the Salizar drug cartel. One of the ways they get their illegal goods into the United States is by hiding them on expensive yachts bound for Florida, but with Hideo dead and his wife and daughter not knowing about the drugs and having fled, they have no choice but to send a crew after them to try and get their cocaine back. However, they have an ace in the hole, because Julie and Meiko have taken Victor Drake aboard to help them get the boat away. Victor works for the Salizars, but he wants Meiko, so he does his best to sabatoge the boat.

Broxton teams up with T-Bone Powers, a likable pirate, but a drug smuggler himself, and they go after the women to try and save the damsels in distress before the drug smugglers catch them.

Meanwhile as the smugglers close on the women, 'Hurricane' Darlene is speeding her way across the Atlantic. Bad guys behind, a hurricane in front, a saboteur on board and our heroines not very experienced sailors, but they learn fast as the skies darken and their options run out.

Some other Mysteries and Thrillers you might enjoy.

'52 Pickup (Thorndike Large Print Famous Authors Series)'
'Gone'
'The Two Minute Rule'
'Mary, Mary (Alex Cross Novels)'
'The Camel Club'
'The Broker'
'No Country for Old Men'
'Night Fall'
'School Days (Spenser)'
'Cold Service (Spenser Mysteries)'
'Sea Change (Jesse Stone Novels)'
'Dead Ringer'
'Desperation Moon'
'Fire Sale (V.I. Warshawski Novels)'
'Seven Deadly Wonders : A Novel'
'S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)'
'The Lighthouse'
'On The Run'
'Vanish'
'4th of July'
'The 5th Horseman (Women's Murder Club)'
'Ten Big Ones (A Stephanie Plum Novel)'
'Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel)'
'Devil's Corner'
'Digital Fortress : A Thriller'
'Lifeguard'
'The Scorpion's Gate'
'The Colorado Kid (Hard Case Crime)'
'Predator (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)'
'Judge & Jury'
'Chill Factor : A Novel'
'Chill of Fear'
'Six Bad Things : A Novel'
'Caught Stealing : A Novel'
'Already Dead : A Novel'
'Wolves Eat Dogs'
'The Triumph of the Sun'
'The President's Assassin'
'The Ice Queen : A Novel'
'The Third Secret : A Novel of Suspense'
'Long Time Gone : A Novel of Suspense (J. P. Beaumont Mysteries)'
'Bangkok Tattoo'
'Without Mercy'
'The Lincoln Lawyer : A Novel'
'The Closers'
'The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde'
'The Harry Bosch Novels Volume 2: The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight'
'The Poet'
'City of Bones'

I hope in the above list you found something you like, but if you’re really super picky and finicky about what you read, never fear, I’ve got some more lists and guides you can check out. Just go to my About You Page and give them a once over.