Blackwater Sound A Novel

by Hall, James W.

• ISBN13: 9780312203849
• ISBN10: 0312203845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-04
• Publisher: Minotaur Books

Summary

The Braswell family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. But their eldest son, the family's shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. And when he disappeared-hauled into the depths by the giant marlin he had been fighting-he took with him a secret so corrupt that it could destroy the Braswells. Ten years later, a huge airliner crashes in the steamy shallows off the Florida coast, killing all aboard. Helping pull bodies from the water, Thorn finds himself drawn into a bizarre conspiracy: someone has developed a high tech weapon capable of destroying electrical systems in a powerful flash. The terrorist potential is huge. How are the secretive Braswells and their family-owned company, MicroDyne, involved? And what does it have to do with the family's obsessive hunt for the great marlin that killed their golden boy? With the Braswells, James W. Hall introduces one of the most evil and dysfunctional families in the history of fiction. And, along with Thorn, he brings back favorite characters from his earlier books, including Alexandra Rafferty and her father, Lawton Collins, a retired and increasingly dotty former police investigator whose methods of investigation result in his kidnapping. A story that bristles with all the heat and tension of a tropical Florida summer, Blackwater Sound is destined to rank among the greatest suspense thrillers of the new decade.

Author Biography

James W. Hall lives on the edge of Blackwater Sound in Key Largo, Florida, with his wife, Evelyn, and his dogs, Travis and Sofie.

Table of Contents

"sleek and relentlessly propulsive..." --Dennis Lehane

"No one has written more lyrically of the Gulfstream since Ernest Hemmingway...a wonderful reading experience..." --James Lee Burke

"No writer working today...more clearly evokes the shadows and loss that hide within the human heart." (Robert Crais, bestselling author of L.A. Requiem and Demolition Angel)

"If you don't know the fine suspense novels of James W. Hall, this will get you off to a rousing start." --Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof

"With beautiful prose and a heavily muscled story, it moves with the grandeur and unpredictability of a [killer] marlin." --Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of A Darkness More Than Night and Angels Flight