When Navy SEAL Vince Romano's wound from Afghanistan leaves him less than one hundred percent capable of rejoining his team. He is forced to retire which throws him into a deep depression and, in desperation, he tries to escape its clutches by fleeing in his parents' fifty-foot motor sailer Webegon. Caught in a storm, Vince is knocked senseless and regains consciousness to Webegon aground in a tropical lagoon on an uncharted island. He soon learns that the island is inhabited by descendants of War of 1812 English privateers and they have lost none of their piratical ways, preying on hapless vessels that run aground in the same lagoon - Treachery Lagoon. Vince seems to enter a time warp when he discovers that the islanders have been insulated from two hundred years of progress and live as they did in the early nineteenth century. But there is treason afoot as the governor's daughter, Carolyn, a beautiful psychopath, foments a civil war in order to keep the privateer treasure for herself. Her young daughter, Maggie, is caught in the middle and Vince agrees to dive for the treasure in exchange for Maggie's life. The plan goes horribly wrong and Maggie is left an orphan. Vince discovers that the islanders have made a pact with Shining Path terrorists from Peru and trade all their booty and hostages from ravaged ships with them for food and basic equipment. After he witnesses the cold-blooded killing of three innocent people by Shining Path soldiers, Vince can no longer stand by and do nothing. It is a fight to the death with the outcome in question right until the very end.
About the Author: Terry L. Shaffer grew up near Oregon City, about twenty miles south of Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Oregon City High School and Clackamas Community College before moving on to Portland State University, majoring in Political Science. Between high school and college, Terry spent four years in the United States Navy, and was assigned duty stations in Long Beach, California, and Naval Intelligence billets in Washington, D.C. and Alameda, California, from where he sailed to the Western Pacific aboard an aircraft carrier and earned both the Vietnam Service Medal and the Vietnam Campaign Medal. During his college days at Portland State, Terry joined the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department where he was assigned a variety of positions including patrol, detectives and narcotics. He retired in 2000 after twenty-five years' service. After writing thousands of pages of police reports and search warrant affidavits, he likes to say that he has twenty-five years' experience writing in the true crime genre. Terry began his writing career in fiction shortly before he retired and has been at it ever since. He lives full time in his motorhome and divides his time between his home in Colton, Oregon, and various locations in the American Southwest where he spends his time writing and exploring. Terry travels with his two miniature Dachshunds, Maggie and Emma, and enjoys off-roading, photography, reading and, of course, writing. He is in the process of editing three more novels which will be available on Amazon in 2015.