A romantic thriller............ Drugs, guns, romance and death meet as one to set off an explosive island paradise. On a quiet night reef fishing in the Florida Keys Clint is startled by the sound of gunfire. Rushing to see if he can help he discovers a boat with its deck covered in blood and bodies and only one female survivor that he hurriedly takes aboard. They are chased in a barrage of machine gun fire escaping into the shallow mangrove islands. The pursuit is relentless by a Columbian drug cartel that will not stop until they finish the job. While running for their lives Clint and Ericka slowly find within each other a soul mate. Escaping to the romantic Bahamas they end up on an isolated island south of San Salvadore. Eventually they are discovered and all hell breaks loose. It is then Clint, an ex-Marine, his mates: Dan, an ex-Army Ranger; Bill, an ex-Seal and Jim an ex-Air Force pararescueman along with Andrew of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force decide enough is enough and create "The Fishing Club". They vow to take out the drug lords from the top since no one else can touch them. "To grab the devil by the throat and never let go" is their motto. The war is on.
About the Author: After ten years with the Ohio Division of Wildlife retiring as the Law Enforcement Supervisor of southwestern Ohio Ron headed south to the Florida Keys in pursuit of a a full time writing career. He had been writing for outdoor magazines for several years, created two radio shows and produced an outdoor television show. The year was 1970 when he stopped at Holiday Isle Resort in Islamorada and in days was helping make an underwater movie on a treasure wreck discovered offshore. He soon became the dockmaster of the big game fishing marina there and worked nights at the Tiki Bar. Several of the bar patrons he became friends with were retired military. Through the 70's and 80's was the time when marijuana smuggling really began in earnest. First just as a trickle with small boats and planes loaded from Jamaica and mostly handled by university students. Then it wasn't long the small dealers and importers were taken over by the Cuban Mafia in south Florida and small boats and planes turned to freighters and DC-3's. The Florida Keys and south Florida was awash with marijuana smugglers importing from Jamaica then from Columbia which brought in the more violent Columbia mafia who took over a big chunk of the business and began the cocaine smuggling in earnest. Gang wars broke out in the streets. Ron was there in the middle of this world while he fished, dived and sailed throughout the Caribbean. He knew many of the people involved in the smuggling trade as he would meet them at the bars and at various ports he visited in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico and throughout the Keys. He left the Keys to live on a small island off the Yucatan coast of Mexico and then having toured the Pacific Islands he now resides in New Zealand where he is a travel writer/photographer. www.ronlaughlin.net The twenty years he spent in the Caribbean is the basis for "the Deadly Quiet Sea" his first novel of that period of time but not to be his last. The story is fiction but the boat trip through the Keys and the islands of the Bahamas is based upon his actual memories. Sailing through the Bahamas was one of Ron's favorite periods of his adventuresome lifestyle. He has many more stories to tell...............some fact......some fiction.......perhaps even a true life adventure of modern day pirates of the Caribbean set in the 70's and 80's soon?