Faced with a lawsuit for failing to save a sinking vessel, salvage captain Seychelle Sullivan seizes the opportunity to get out of town to tow the yacht Power Play, captained by her friend Nestor Frias, back from Key West, but when Frias turns up dead, she launches her own investigation into modern-day predators preying on ships in the Florida Keys. 10,000 first printing.
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Praise for Christine Kling
Bitter End
“Christine Kling’s novels just keep getting better and better. . . . She takes her readers on fast-paced tours of areas into which few writers have ventured.”
–Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, author of Luck of the Draw
“John D. McDonald would get a kick out of Christine Kling’s suspense novels.”
–Chicago Tribune
Cross Current
“A taut, fast-paced thriller . . . Kling’s prose is strong and authoritative.”
–The Miami Herald
“Exciting . . . Kling is an author who bears watching. She clearly knows how to add texture and color to her narrative. . . . Cross Current is a keeper.”
–The Tampa Tribune
Surface Tension
“An exceptionally rare first novel . . . moving and full of suspense.”
–James W. Hall, author of Off the Chart
“Seychelle Sullivan fights off a very real array of land-based predators with a grit and determination that John D. himself would have cheered.”
–Les Standiford, author of Bone Key
L'autore:
Christine Kling is the author of Surface Tension, Cross Current, and Bitter End. She spent more than twenty years on and around boats and has cruised the waters of the North and South Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Florida International University in Miami. She lives in South Florida aboard her thirty-three-foot sailboat.
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- EditoreBallantine Books
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 034547905X
- ISBN 13 9780345479051
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine304
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