James W Hall

Blackwater Sound James W Hall

Publisher Marketing: 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." Review Citations: Library Journal 05/15/2002 pg. 142 (EAN 9781587888939, Analog Audio Cassette) Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2001 pg. 1505 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 11/12/2001 pg. 33 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 172 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) New York Times 01/06/2002 pg. 19 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) People Weekly 02/25/2002 pg. 43 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2002 01/01/2002 pg. 1 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) Booklist 10/01/2001 pg. 352 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 401 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 312 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 387 (EAN 9780312203849, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Hall, James W A native of Kentucky, James W. Hall has made Florida his home, as well as the setting for his popular suspense thrillers. He obtained his B. A. in Literature from Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College) in 1969, an M. A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1970, and a Ph. D. in Literature from the University of Utah in 1973. For the last 29 years, he has taught literature and creative writing at Florida International University, where his students have included Dennis Lehane, Barbara Parker, and Vicki Hendricks. After publishing four books of poetry-three with the Carnegie-Mellon University Press-and several works of short fiction in such magazines as the Georgia Review and Kenyon Review, Hall began writing crime novels in 1986 with "Under Cover of Daylight," His published thrillers include "Under Cover of Daylight" (1987), "Tropical Freeze" (1990), "Bones of Coral" (1992), "Hard Aground" (1993), "Mean High Tide" (1994), "Gone Wild" (1995), "Buzz Cut" (1996), "Red Sky at Night" (1997), "Body Language" (1998), and" Rough Draft" (2000). He lives on the edge of Blackwater Sound in Key Largo, Florida, with his wife, Evelyn, and his dogs, Travis and Sofie. Contributor Bio:  Hill, Dick Reader of over four hundred audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie Awards and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards. "AudioFile" includes Dick on their prestigious list of Golden Voices.