Friday, August 17, 2012

PimPage: An Occasional Feature in which I Call Attention to Books of Interest

The Boss of Hampton BeachAmazon.com: The Boss of Hampton Beach (9780985861711): Jed Power: Books: Cocaine. Dan Marlowe is doing his damnedest to stay away from the stuff. It’s already cost him his family and his business, The High Tide Restaurant & Saloon. Now a bartender at the Tide, Dan’s life is slowly stabilizing. That is until a boat with two dead bodies on board is found wrecked on the jetty at Hampton Beach. The hunt for its missing cargo, 200 pounds of cocaine, is on. Dan is forced into the search and realizes that the drug that stole everything short of his life might be the one thing that can give it all back. He’s not the only one seeking the fortune in white powder. Others, on both sides of the law, are after it too, including a Boston mob boss and his right-hand man; a New Hampshire seacoast drug dealer/informer, his smokin’ hot girlfriend, and his dim-witted muscle; a crooked D.E.A. agent and his junkie sidekick; two New Hampshire State policemen; and an Irish handyman. It’s a violent, back-stabbing race to the end of the rainbow. May the best man win.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting choice of name for his protagonist.


Jeff

mybillcrider said...

Dan Marlowe, the writer, was the author's father's best friend and lived with the family for a time.