When retired US Marine gunner Shake
Davis learns an American with highly classified information has gone missing in
Cuba, his investigation reveals the man is being held hostage on Fidel Castro’s
private island
In the midst of a major move from suburban Virginia—“too close to the flagpole”—to the great state of Texas—“my kind of place and my kind of people”—retired US Marine gunner Shake Davis is contemplating the government’s proposed normalization of relations with Cuba—and he’s not happy about it. By the time he arrives at the new Davis homestead in a quaint little town south of the Texas capitol at Austin, he’s convinced—by instinct and past experience with tenacious communist governments—that America is making a big mistake in making nice with the Castro regime.
And Shake’s instinct may be right. When a missing American intelligence analyst goes missing in Cuba and is presumed dead, Shake flies into action, conducting his own investigation from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The drama reaches a head as Shake pulls together a small team of Marine Raiders to stage a daring rescue from the sea.
In the midst of a major move from suburban Virginia—“too close to the flagpole”—to the great state of Texas—“my kind of place and my kind of people”—retired US Marine gunner Shake Davis is contemplating the government’s proposed normalization of relations with Cuba—and he’s not happy about it. By the time he arrives at the new Davis homestead in a quaint little town south of the Texas capitol at Austin, he’s convinced—by instinct and past experience with tenacious communist governments—that America is making a big mistake in making nice with the Castro regime.
And Shake’s instinct may be right. When a missing American intelligence analyst goes missing in Cuba and is presumed dead, Shake flies into action, conducting his own investigation from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The drama reaches a head as Shake pulls together a small team of Marine Raiders to stage a daring rescue from the sea.
About
the Author
Dale A. Dye is a US Marine officer
who rose through the ranks to retire as a captain after twenty-one years of
service in war and peace. He is a distinguished graduate of the Missouri
Military Academy who enlisted the United States Marine Corps shortly after
graduation. Sent to war in Southeast Asia, he served in Vietnam in 1965 and
1967 through 1970, surviving thirty-one major combat operations. Appointed a
warrant officer in 1976, he later converted his commission and was a captain
when he deployed to Beirut, Lebanon, with the Multinational Force from 1982
through 1983. He served in a variety of assignments around the world and along
the way attained a degree in English literature from the University of
Maryland. Following retirement from active duty in 1984, he spent time in
Central America, reporting and training troops for guerrilla warfare in El
Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Upset with Hollywood’s treatment of the
American military, he went to Hollywood and established Warriors, Inc., the
preeminent military training and advisory service to the entertainment
industry. Dye has worked on more than fifty movies and TV shows, including
several Oscar- and Emmy-winning productions. He is a novelist, actor, director,
and show business innovator, who wanders between Los Angeles and Lockhart,
Texas.
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"No one knows more about ground
war and warriors than Dale Dye, and no one writes it better." Stephen
Coonts, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of War: A Novel
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