The Blood Red Sea

by Ron Faust

Overview

A Dan Shaw Thriller
In this enticing thriller, Dan Shaw risks the deep waters of wealth, deception, and murder off the Gold Coast to see rustic done for a beautiful woman.
Dan Shaw has been practicing law only four months and he’s already burned out. Add the fact that he’s just lost his longtime girlfriend and the cops are scouring his dubious past, and it’s no wonder that Shaw decides to set sail for the summer and get away from it all. But even alone in the middle of the sea, trouble finds him—in the enticing form of Katherine Adams. When Shaw hauls her out of the ocean, she’s naked, nearly drowned, and has little memory as to how she got that way. But the real story is even more twisted. Her husband, Cesar Cardinal, is a diplomat, a playboy, and a high-stakes gambler. He’s feigned his wife’s suicide at sea and taken their young son to a heavily armed compound in the Dominican Republic, where U.S. law can’t touch him. But that’s not going to stop Shaw, who can’t deny his feelings for Katherine. From Bell Harbor to Santo Domingo, he’s baiting a trap with his own life . . . and there’s no telling what he’ll catch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620454503
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/09/2014
Series:	The Dan Shaw Thrillers
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

RON FAUST is the author of fourteen previous thrillers. He has been praised for his “rare and remarkable talent” (Los Angeles Times), and several of his books have been optioned for films. Before he began writing, he played professional baseball and worked at newspapers in Colorado Springs, San Diego, and Key West.

Read an Excerpt

I returned to the cockpit and tried to get comfortable. Again the night was almost totally silent. There was just the gentle creaking of the boat, the occasional slap of water against the hull, and beyond that a silence that itself seemed to vibrate. An airliner, lights flashing, descended toward Puerto Rico, but I heard nothing. The plane was too high for sound to carry down to me.

I went below to get a bottle of water, and when I returned to the deck I noticed an object off the starboard beam. I didn’t recognize it at first: It might have been a bag of trash jettisoned from a distant ship; a dead or injured animal, a shark or squid or dolphin; debris of some sort. Whatever, a ring of phosphorescence spread out from the pale core. Then I recognized the human form and for an instant assumed that it was a corpse, a floater. Alive? Impossible. We were eighty-five miles from land. The movement of its limbs, the feeble thrashing, were a result of the current. Closer now, and I heard harsh breathing that turned to whimpers on the exhalations. She was naked, very pale, corpse-white in that dark, jellied sea, and her skin and hair sparkled with plankton. Very close now, she lifted a hand, an arm, a pale face that exhaustion had tautened into a death mask. Her fingernails scratched at the hull.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

 “A sharp and exciting story.” —Chicago Tribune

“A writer of enormous talent, a stylist to admire and a storyteller of great power.”
 —Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent

“Faust writes beautifully . . . he reminds you of Hemingway and Peter Matthiessen. . . . Faust has it all: lyrical prose, complex characters and provocative plots.”
—Booklist

“Faust’s clear, unadorned prose and his deft, pure characterization ring with the force of Hemingway or Graham Greene.”
—Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

A sharp and exciting story.” —Chicago Tribune

“A writer of enormous talent, a stylist to admire and a storyteller of great power.”
 —Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent

“Faust writes beautifully . . . he reminds you of Hemingway and Peter Matthiessen. . . . Faust has it all: lyrical prose, complex characters and provocative plots.”
—Booklist

“Faust’s clear, unadorned prose and his deft, pure characterization ring with the force of Hemingway or Graham Greene.”
—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher