Devil's Harbor
A Novel
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
With heart-stopping thrills, a Walter White–esque villain, and a fascinating hero, Alex Gilly's Devil's Harbor is a thriller unlike any you have read before
Nick Finn and his partner and brother-in-law, Diego Jimenez, are used to rough water. As Marine Interdiction Agents for Customs and Border Protection, the two hunt drug smugglers, human traffickers, and other criminals who hide in the vastness of the waters surrounding southern California.
One night, Finn and Diego track a phantom boat off the Los Angeles coast, but it disappears before they can intercept it. They find a dead body in its wake, ravaged by sharks. Their investigation into the floater stalls when Finn is accused of using excessive force following the death of a suspected drug smuggler.
Then Diego is murdered—and Finn is the number-one suspect. As he races to find the real killer and save his marriage, Finn is forced to partner with Linda Blake, the desperate captain of the Pacific Belle and mother of Lucy, a very sick little girl, to attempt the one thing he has devoted his life to stopping.
In order to clear his name and save a child's life, Finn must smuggle narcotics by sea into the United States…and avoid the net that his CBP colleagues have cast for him.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Gilly's thrill-a-moment first novel, Nick Finn and his well-meaning but slightly dim brother-in-law, Diego Jimenez, both Marine Interdiction agents, are patrolling the sea off California's Santa Catalina Island early one morning in their 39-foot Customs and Border Protection vessel. When a man aboard a sport fisher refuses to identify himself and fires on Nick and Diego's boat, Nick shoots back and kills the man. It's all downhill from there. The CBP is ready to throw Nick under the bus, he starts drinking again, and his lawyer wife moves out of their L.A. home. Then Diego washes ashore with a bullet hole in his forehead. Meanwhile, Diarmud Cutts, an ex-IRA and French Foreign Legion trafficker in drugs and worse, forces Nick to transport narcotics from Mexico to save the life of a child. The ending is an unexpected nail-bitter that crackles with tension. Readers will look forward to seeing more of Nick.
