HURRICANE FATS (COLE SUDDEN CIA THRILLERS Book 1)
Book Details
Author(s)Lawrence De Maria
PublisherSt. Austin's Press
ISBN / ASINB009YY5R3S
ISBN-13978B009YY5R39
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
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LAWRENCE DE MARIA'S ACCLAIMED THRILLERS AND MYSTERIES HAVE "A TOUCH OF BOURNE, A DASH OF BOND AND A SPRIG OF SPENSER". (John Crudele, the New York Post)
Auburn Longstreet’s Caribbean-based Ponzi scheme took in $300 million before he was caught. Thousands of small investors lost their life savings as the slippery six-foot-four con man eschewed restitution.
Instead, he spent the bulk of the money on stateside lawyers and crooked politicians who kept him out of jail. He also prudently put aside millions to pay off some favored clients (drug cartels) that would otherwise have cut him into little pieces.
But the greedy Longstreet wasn’t satisfied. He decided to keep $35 million that “rightly” belonged to a New Orleans mob boss – by arranging to have the mobster convicted on financial evidence he secretly supplied the Feds.
Even better, the jailed Don dies in prison thinking it was one of his own crew who turned on him in return for a cushy life in witness protection.
Enter an ultra-secret unit of the Central Intelligence Agency with an interesting, and lucrative, program.
Having broken into the Federal and state computers that track all the people in witness protection, the C.I.A. unit bumps off mob turncoats in return for cash and intelligence provided by vengeful mob bosses.
One of its “clients” is Fats Boudreau, the dead Don’s brutal son. But when Fats discovers that Longstreet is the real traitor and that Cole Sudden, a C.I.A. assassin, killed the wrong man, he goes berserk.
He wants Longstreet and Sudden dead – and his $35 million!
Add a cadaverous and laconic Las Vegas hit man and a monster Category 5 storm into the volatile mix and HURRICANE FATS builds to a shattering climax.
Think KEY LARGO – if the movie was made by the people who produced DIE HARD!
MORE CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well.” (THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS)
“What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing.” (THE COLLIER CITIZEN)
De Maria is “a master of thriller dialogue.” (THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Winner of an Associated Press award for crime reporting, Lawrence De Maria is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist who cut his teeth on financial corruption at The New York Times and Forbes.
Auburn Longstreet’s Caribbean-based Ponzi scheme took in $300 million before he was caught. Thousands of small investors lost their life savings as the slippery six-foot-four con man eschewed restitution.
Instead, he spent the bulk of the money on stateside lawyers and crooked politicians who kept him out of jail. He also prudently put aside millions to pay off some favored clients (drug cartels) that would otherwise have cut him into little pieces.
But the greedy Longstreet wasn’t satisfied. He decided to keep $35 million that “rightly” belonged to a New Orleans mob boss – by arranging to have the mobster convicted on financial evidence he secretly supplied the Feds.
Even better, the jailed Don dies in prison thinking it was one of his own crew who turned on him in return for a cushy life in witness protection.
Enter an ultra-secret unit of the Central Intelligence Agency with an interesting, and lucrative, program.
Having broken into the Federal and state computers that track all the people in witness protection, the C.I.A. unit bumps off mob turncoats in return for cash and intelligence provided by vengeful mob bosses.
One of its “clients” is Fats Boudreau, the dead Don’s brutal son. But when Fats discovers that Longstreet is the real traitor and that Cole Sudden, a C.I.A. assassin, killed the wrong man, he goes berserk.
He wants Longstreet and Sudden dead – and his $35 million!
Add a cadaverous and laconic Las Vegas hit man and a monster Category 5 storm into the volatile mix and HURRICANE FATS builds to a shattering climax.
Think KEY LARGO – if the movie was made by the people who produced DIE HARD!
MORE CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well.” (THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS)
“What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing.” (THE COLLIER CITIZEN)
De Maria is “a master of thriller dialogue.” (THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Winner of an Associated Press award for crime reporting, Lawrence De Maria is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist who cut his teeth on financial corruption at The New York Times and Forbes.
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