About This Book
Tony and the passionate, multitalented, mysterious woman, Jenay sail south from her home on the island of Dominica with a suitcase full of money to escape everything and everybody to do with their criminal pasts. However, disaster strikes and they go to work as Captain and cook on a charter sailing yacht. On their second trip to the Grenadines there is trouble in Bequia, and their charter guests reconnect Tony with his past. Back in Saint Lucia Tony can't resist the offer to take part in a smuggling trip and afterward his fear of being connected with it prompts him and Jenay to take jobs on a large motor yacht bound for Europe. With the help of the contractor onboard, who is making necessary repairs, Tony learns enough to make the trip as Chief Engineer. In the Mediterranean he can't resist the opportunity to join fellow crewmembers in a smuggling adventure. When it ends badly he leaves to escape potential problems. His partner Jenay, for unstated reasons, will not go with him back to the Caribbean. AUTHORS BIO The weight of the responsibility of having a pregnant wife ended my college experience at the end of the first year. Education in the diversity of humankind, and how to survive it and prosper led me in and out of too many cultural milieus to list in this effort. I became addicted to the freedom and adventure that the sea and seaports provided. Commercial fishermen, yachtsmen and their crews, and mariners from most varieties of vessels have been my life teachers. The Atlantic and Pacific ports of the US, the Caribbean Islands, the South and Central American ports around the Caribbean and ports of the Mediterranean were my windows into human activities until I retired to the Virgin Islands to use my experiences as grist for my writing. I have read that good police detectives think like crooks; I would have made a great detective. That talent has brought me very close to trouble several times when it became obvious to me there was illegal activity afoot and afloat, and those involved in it saw I understood what was going on. Surprisingly, they frequently tried to recruit me because I was obviously aware but minding my own business and keeping my mouth shut. Those encounters and my very active imagination have been the source of some of the material in most of my books---and that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
