What do you think?
Rate this book
WIRED
Sometimes we don’t get to pick our battles . . . they pick us!
On a picture-perfect day, a day cruise ship is hijacked off the Florida coast and “wired” with explosives. At the same time car bombs explode across America—lots of car bombs. As these startling revelations unfold, the perpetrators turn out to be the ultra-violent "Los Zetas" who have joined forces with Al-Qaeda to exact the release of a notorious drug lord jailed in Miami.
Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ray Hanna has the ship surrounded but finds himself on a political leash. He can’t release Alvarez and he can’t storm the ship without endangering the 218 passengers. It's a standoff. When the hijackers begin blowing up passengers wearing life jackets rigged with C-4—makeshift suicide vests—Hanna receives 24 hours to end the deadlock or else, leaving him with just one unthinkable choice.
For Captain Skip Myles, the situation transcends belief. The unimaginable shock of losing his vessel to armed terrorists only ten miles from port has left him a bewildered captive on his own ship. When he doesn’t come home from his evening cruise, his worried wife calls her ex-Navy SEAL brother in Detroit. Cal rushes to her side and later embarks on a lone mission to rescue Skip, convinced that if he doesn’t, no one else will.
Later that night, armed with a black-market Uzi and some borrowed scuba gear, Cal Stringer falls back into the Gulf of Mexico for his two-mile underwater swim to the Majestic Star, plunging headlong into a three-way Armageddon between the U.S. Coast Guard, Al-Qaeda, and the Mexican Drug Mafia.
This is where our story begins . . . . .
On a picture-perfect day, a day cruise ship is hijacked off the Florida coast and “wired” with explosives. At the same time car bombs explode across America—lots of car bombs. As these startling revelations unfold, the perpetrators turn out to be the ultra-violent "Los Zetas" who have joined forces with Al-Qaeda to exact the release of a notorious drug lord jailed in Miami.
Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ray Hanna has the ship surrounded but finds himself on a political leash. He can’t release Alvarez and he can’t storm the ship without endangering the 218 passengers. It's a standoff. When the hijackers begin blowing up passengers wearing life jackets rigged with C-4—makeshift suicide vests—Hanna receives 24 hours to end the deadlock or else, leaving him with just one unthinkable choice.
For Captain Skip Myles, the situation transcends belief. The unimaginable shock of losing his vessel to armed terrorists only ten miles from port has left him a bewildered captive on his own ship. When he doesn’t come home from his evening cruise, his worried wife calls her ex-Navy SEAL brother in Detroit. Cal rushes to her side and later embarks on a lone mission to rescue Skip, convinced that if he doesn’t, no one else will.
Later that night, armed with a black-market Uzi and some borrowed scuba gear, Cal Stringer falls back into the Gulf of Mexico for his two-mile underwater swim to the Majestic Star, plunging headlong into a three-way Armageddon between the U.S. Coast Guard, Al-Qaeda, and the Mexican Drug Mafia.
This is where our story begins . . . . .
482 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2015
6 people are currently reading
14 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.