First published 2017
Daniel "Mac" MacCormick owns a charter fishing boat in Key West, but his finances are crumbling. The thirty-five-year-old Army veteran earned a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts in Afghanistan, yet he struggles to pay the loan on his forty-two-foot boat, The Maine. Mac sits in the Green Parrot Bar, waiting to meet Carlos, a Miami lawyer connected to anti-Castro groups. Carlos offers Mac the standard rate for a ten-day Cuban fishing tournament. Mac refuses. The price jumps to two million dollars. Mac agrees to hear the proposal and meets Carlos's clients: Sara Ortega, a beautiful Cuban-American woman, and Eduardo Valazquez, a mysterious Cuban exile. They reveal that Sara's grandfather hid sixty million American dollars in Cuba before fleeing Castro's revolution. With relations warming between Cuba and the United States, the group knows someone will discover the money soon. Mac faces a choice that will either make him wealthy or cost him his life.
Genres: adventure, contemporary, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Afghanistan, Cuba, Key West, Miami
Period: Contemporary
433 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster