When United States Supreme Court Justice Arturo Santi, an implacable foe of the current administration, disappears while on a fishing trip in the Florida Straits — along with the boat, its captain and mate and John Cann — it initially appears to be a tragic accident. It is not.
But somehow, the captain of the fishing boat, widower Jake Priestly, former Air Force pararescue, manages to survive what was actually an assault on his boat by a clandestine force of special operators who snatched the judge in order to...to what?
When they learn of Priestly's survival, the powers that be, foreign and domestic, cannot allow what he knows to go public, not least because the disappearance of the judge has opened the way for the President of the United States to appoint a replacement that will completely alter the current balance of the United States Supreme Court. But only if Justice Santi remains missing.
And so Jake finds himself hunted, imprisoned and eventually left for dead in the Florida Everglades to keep him from revealing the truth, as he knows it, about Justice Arturo Santi's disappearance.
But there's a lot more that Jake doesn't know and it takes all the technology of modern undersea surveillance and detection to seek out, find and try to stop the kidnappers before they carry out their deadly task.
“Extraordinary Rendition” is a thriller, international, legal and political and a mystery that reads like a combination of “Day of the Jackal” and “The Hunt for Red October”.
