Sailing into the Bahamas, expecting a tropical paradise, a young adventurer comes face to face with the hard reality of a cruel world, when he is confronted with modern-day slave traders and bloodthirsty pirates preying on native islanders and unsuspecting yachtsmen in the Bermuda Triangle. After rescuing a group of young islanders, Luke Canfield incurs the wrath of a South American warlord who hunts him for years across the Caribbean Basin leaving a trail of bodies, while abducting women that are sold into servitude to rich housewives in Miami, and Saudi Arabian pedophiles. Inducted into the infancy of a burgeoning drug-smuggling trade between South America and the U.S. that would eventually feed the growing demand for marijuana and cocaine, Luke eventually joins forces with a secret military force, funded by the U.S. Government, that seeks to put an end to the rampant piracy and kidnappings that threatens to disrupt the billion-dollar tourist industry throughout the Caribbean. In 1970, when the world’s attention was focused on Southeast Asia, another war was being fought closer to home, in the crystal-clear waters from Miami to Cartagena, by evil men, practicing an ancient occupation, and only sheer determination and bloodletting will stop it! This action-packed adventure reads like a travel guide, crisscrossing through the islands long before there were all-inclusive resorts lining the beaches throughout the Caribbean. Slave tracks are the scars left on the backs of men and women after being violently whipped.
After spending three decades as a kidnap resolution specialist in Latin America and the Caribbean, Marcus Miller has authored twelve books and many short stories. His books reflect his experiences dealing with human traffickers and the criminal underground.
While many of us grew going to school and then looked for a “normal” job, Marcus outlines another way to make a living. And that’s an understatement. I do believe the slave trade business is bigger than many of us want to believe. Those that decide to fight those battles are no less hero’s than those who defend our country under the flag of the country they represent. And thank goodness for them.
Because of his tales, I have come to appreciate those warriors who play a part in keeping us safe. Nobody should be killed and or sold into slavery because of pirates.
Hope Marcus keeps writing. If I could ever meet him, I would thank him and buy him a rum drink of his choosing!
I enjoyed the familiar streets that I visited on vacation. The story moved smoothly and kept my interest. It also has me researching a few things about the Bermuda Triangle and has me questing what I thought I knew about modern slavery. I enjoyed it!
Luke makes a new life, and some interesting new acquaintances, friends as well as enemies. Trouble always seems to find him, luckily so do the mentors to teach him the skills to deal with it.