Redemption: A Paul Masset Novel: Book 1

by Allen Hill

When Staff Sergeant Paul Masset’s thirst for revenge gets his best friend killed and himself wounded in Afghanistan he's discharged by the army and drifts in a downward spiral. Years pass and finds himself a Caribbean charter boat captain, but it's only a cover for drug trafficking. Abby Gray is a driven corporate lawyer who travels to Belize trying to find her missing party girl sister. Armed with only a few cell phone pictures, she begins her search. The trail leads her to a tropical paradise and Masset’s fishing boat .
Tomas Diaz, a brutal drug lord known as the blade, must stop Abby from asking questions about her missing sister before she exposes his secret, a secret that if uncovered is his death sentence. Abby and Masset escape Diaz’s first attempt to murder them and team up, each for their own reasons, to find a lost plane rumored to have crashed in the mountains. If they can survive the jungle and discover the plane, will it hold answers or more questions? Either way, Diaz can’t let them succeed and let’s lose his army to silence them. Will Masset give into his past or will he fight for Redemption?

295 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 13, 2023

About the author

Ever since I was a kid, there were only two things I wanted to be when I grew up: a soldier and a writer. I mean, my teens were nothing but Platoon, Red Dawn and Stripes on the screen and Stephen King on the page. It was awesome. After earning an associate's degree in electronics, I joined the active Army and started what ended as a twenty-year career. After six years of active duty and a tour in West Germany, during which I got see see the red menace more formally known as the Soviet Union fall, I joined the Iowa National Guard as a mechanized Combat Engineer, where not only did we get to shoot guns and play cards, we got to blow stuff up. I had found my home for the next fourteen years. During my time in the National Guard, I deployed twice, to Honduras in 1996 and Afghanistan in 2004. In the civilian world, I took a position with the government, where I continue to toil away hoping I can retire to my desk in a few years, making writing my full-time occupation. I live in Eastern Iowa with my family, our three cats, and a German Shepard named Sadie. My wife and I stay busy keeping them all feed and happy. We enjoy being home bodies, camping and we're always trying new recipes or putting our spin on the classics.