Genre: Suspense
Description:
“Wally Breight’s a miserable-in-his-job P.R. executive who dreams of
escaping to happily-ever-after in the Caribbean. When he stumbles across a
run-down scuba diving operation for sale on Blacktip Island, he snaps it up and
settles into paradise. But paradise has other ideas. His dive boat’s a lemon.
His business partner proves the age of piracy isn’t dead. Scuba guests are
scarce. And a free-spirited dive mistress might party him into an early grave. If
Wally can’t get a handle on paradise, pronto, he’ll be leaving Blacktip Island
faster than a coconut in a hurricane.”
Author:
A former photojournalist, Tim W. Jackson now
splits his time between captaining a boat, teaching people how to scuba dive,
and writing. (Yes, he appears to have some similarities to the protagonist of
this book.) He’s written several books and short stories, many of them based on
the tropical (and I’m guessing fictional) Blacktip Island. This is the latest
of those.
Appraisal:
I’ve read a couple of Tim Jackson’s books set on Blacktip Island and,
if there is any kind of pattern, it is that while those involved are living or
at least visiting what many would consider a paradise, things don’t always go
smoothly in paradise. That’s the case for our protagonist, Wally, who thinks
he’s lucked into a great situation that until now was more like one of his
wildest dreams. Then things turn out a bit different than he pictured them. And
of course, just when it looks like he’s getting things back on track, something
else will shake things up. You’ll have to read the book to see how it all turns
out for Wally, but he’ll keep you on your toes, trying (and failing) to
anticipate where things are going the entire way.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
Review is based on an advance reader copy, so I can’t gauge the final
product in this area.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 70-75,000 words
1 comment:
Cheers, Al!
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