Midnight Water

by Geoffrey Norman

Dan Carpenter, a Vietnam veteran and discredited legislator, returns home to Florida only to be confronted by a powerful drug ring

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 24, 1983

About the author

Geoffrey Norman is an American writer and editor based in Vermont.

Reviews

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thriller - Dan Carpenter, Viet Nam vet, returns to his home town of Westin on Florida's northern Gulf Coast. As he tries to settle into a new life as an aspiring nature photographer, he gets involved with helping a fisherman friend locate a highjacked boat and keeping an ex-lawyer friend from getting in bed with drug smugglers.

[Diane Wachter · Rating 2 out of 5]

PB-B @ 1983, 12/91. Novel about an ex-Special Forces Vietnam Veteran coming back to friends in Florida, only to discover that the drug trade ruled. Violent, not my type.