Böcker av David Culberson

A cast of magnetic characters share this little piece of paradise in chaotic harmony, with one character more magnetic and dangerous than the rest-Captain Jay. The island captivates an accidental hero from Middle-America, the Rookie, who arrives in the late 1970s and unwittingly heralds a reluctant populace into modernity. The Rookie's relationship with Captain Jay will heartbreakingly and hilariously change them both, and the island-forever.

The Cold War was in high gear. Terrorist attacks around the world were on the increase; two hundred forty-one US Marines having just been killed by a suicide bomber in Beirut. Reagan was loaded for bear. America needed a win. Reagan pounced. His target was an idyllic island in the Windward chain of the lower Caribbean whose primary export, besides tourism, is nutmeg.A couple of hundred miles north of Grenada, a bumbling group of island misfits have stolen a boat and kidnapped the girlfriend of the local dive master and tough guy, Captain Jay. Captain Jay wants her back. He and a close-knit group of friends begin an island-hopping chase with the kidnappers that leads them through the Caribbean and, eventually, to the island of Grenadäon the eve of Operation Urgent Fury.

Alterio Delgado, an unscrupulous man with mesmerizing charm, has been spending a lot of time on a beautiful, unspoiled island off Mexico's Caribbean Coast, dangling the notion that it should be developed into a new tourist destination-the next Cancun. The island residents who control the island are poor but happy fishermen, descendants of pirates who settled it more than a century ago. They've embraced Alterio's promise of finding billions of dollars to develop the island; not fully understanding that mass tourism development would irreversibly change their island and destroy their culture.What Alterio doesn't know is that El Simpatico has been secretly cultivating this opportunity for years and is determined to be the clandestine developer of Mexico's next major tourist destination-whatever the cost.