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Caribbean Counterstrike
It’s the deadliest nerve gas ever made, and it has fallen into the hands of a murderous Caribbean drug cult!
The criminal 252 Syndicate has developed a game-changing battlefield nerve gas in a secret lab hidden on an oil rig servicing ship. But the ship has been caught in a drug war in a Caribbean country, seized by one of the most vicious drug cartels in existence, and held for ransom.
Alerted afterward by a defecting 252 member, the U.S. government has no good options. Despite the peril of leaving a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of psychotics, it cannot mount an airstrike or an armed raid on a nominally friendly country. Additionally, there is no time for diplomatic action that preserves the secret of the new weapon—the 252s will launch their own attack in five days.
The best of the bad options is a covert raid led by young Coast Guard Officer Ben Wyporek and his crew aboard the newly-upgraded, stealth-equipped Cutter Kauai. However, Ben’s last lethal encounter with the 252s has cured his hunger for glory, and he has found his soulmate in the beautiful genius Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Victoria Carpenter.
It is yet another deadly race against the 252s to save the world, and now Ben and Victoria have everything to lose.
NOTE: This is a military thriller adaptation of a SciFi novel previously published as Engage at Dawn: Seize and Destroy by Edward Hochsmann.
The criminal 252 Syndicate has developed a game-changing battlefield nerve gas in a secret lab hidden on an oil rig servicing ship. But the ship has been caught in a drug war in a Caribbean country, seized by one of the most vicious drug cartels in existence, and held for ransom.
Alerted afterward by a defecting 252 member, the U.S. government has no good options. Despite the peril of leaving a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of psychotics, it cannot mount an airstrike or an armed raid on a nominally friendly country. Additionally, there is no time for diplomatic action that preserves the secret of the new weapon—the 252s will launch their own attack in five days.
The best of the bad options is a covert raid led by young Coast Guard Officer Ben Wyporek and his crew aboard the newly-upgraded, stealth-equipped Cutter Kauai. However, Ben’s last lethal encounter with the 252s has cured his hunger for glory, and he has found his soulmate in the beautiful genius Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Victoria Carpenter.
It is yet another deadly race against the 252s to save the world, and now Ben and Victoria have everything to lose.
NOTE: This is a military thriller adaptation of a SciFi novel previously published as Engage at Dawn: Seize and Destroy by Edward Hochsmann.
384 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 21, 2022
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February 19, 2026
A good techno-thriller.
December 30, 2022
A coast guard ship stationed in the Caribbean becomes involved in a search for a possible Russian nuclear device that drug smugglers would like to find. Of course, the Russians would like to retrieve it themselves. What are the chances this device won't self-detonate?
A pretty good story.
A pretty good story.
September 22, 2025
An excellent action adventure story set around the Florida Keys. I couldn’t put this down, great characters and an interesting plot and very well written. Cannot wait to read the next in the series. Highly recommended.
June 4, 2026
Excellent read
A good interesting read set within the US Coastguard Service, excellent Story line and a good list of characters, I enjoyed it and highly recommend it.
A good interesting read set within the US Coastguard Service, excellent Story line and a good list of characters, I enjoyed it and highly recommend it.
June 21, 2026
I thought that this was a pretty good read. An easy pace and an easy read, reasonably engaging and entertaining.
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