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ongoing battle with Group 45.

He soon finds himself in a confrontation with a late night assailant, the descendent of a
minor historical figure of the Nineteenth Century, who provides Jake with an amazing tale
and a strange drawing that may hold the key to solving a murder clouded by history and
finding the long-lost City of Gold.

Once again, Jake and Mike embark on an adventure, aided by a knowledgeable young intern
from the Federal Institute of Native Studies, and, as usual, the warning sign circling slowly on
the surface of the water does not even begin to represent the dangers and discoveries to be
found far below.

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Come Monday Trying to Reason with Havana Daydreamin'
Hurricane Season
Set sultry 1958, and
backdropof Miami and of the mob’s
the Keys, Come Monday President is barely warm
is a tale of having it all Jordan Fletcher has just breeze away the
and losing it in one negotiated a historical his gambling
major misstep. Jake treaty with Cuba, and its sparkling on the ocean:
Sullivan is chief Havana, the Monte Carlo of the
prosecuting attorney in the Miami Office of the t t Caribbean. Then…Castro came down from the
Justice Department. His life is on track with Miami. He has asked Jake Sullivan to mountains, armed and on a mission. Batista’s days were
his dream job, a great family and good coordinate the treaty signing ceremony. Just numbered, and so was his patronage of Lansky and his
friends. So it is more than reasonable that he as Jake and his investigator and close friend, cronies.
expects a huge victory in the high profile Mike Lang, begin their job, they receive the It was said Lansky moved hundreds of millions of dollars
murder case he has just taken on. He has astounding news that Benjamin Matthews has out of Cuba. But, when he died in 1983, his estate was
solid evidence that places an accused serial died in prison of a heart attack, at the same reported to be worth only sixty thousand dollars in cash.
killer, Carlos Ortiz, at the scene of a terrible time learning that an assassination plot has What happened to the money?
murder. been hatched against the President and Raul and With the ratification of the treaty between the U.S.
Due to the horrific nature of the crimes, Fidel Castro. and Cuba, President Jordan Fletcher is encouraging
the pain to the victims’ families, and his Working with a threat analysis expert from the American entrepreneurship on the island. Enter the
growing conflict with his boss, Attorney Secret Service, Jonathan Clark, and Paula Cortez, mob…with a revived dream of government-
General Benjamin Matthews, Jake becomes a specialist in Cuban affairs from the FBI, Jake sanctioned criminal enterprise.
obsessed with this case, an obsession fueled by sets about trying to diffuse the plot by Two competing factions are vying to become the
his ever increasing reliance on the bottle. And discovering the identity of a mysterious new Havana Mob and each knows the key to success is
just when he needs his wits about him, the assassin known only as “The Agent”, employed by finding Lansky’s missing millions. One faction, led by the
drinking clouds his judgment, his case is lost, an even more secret organization, “The Birth of mysterious “Le Lisiado,” is on the offensive: Paula
and a killer is set free on the streets of Miami. New Madrid.” As the summer months move by Cortez, President Fletcher’s liaison to the new Cuban
With his career in shambles, Jake pulls away with the assassin still on the loose, the tension government, is kidnapped.
from home and family and soon his marriage builds at Jake’s office, just as tension builds out When Mike Lang learns of the kidnapping, he
collapses. When an opportunity arises in Key on the open water as a very active hurricane rushes to Havana to save the woman he loves. Threating
West, he takes off for Margaritaville in hopes season is underway. Paula’s death, “Le Lisiado” blackmails Mike into
of a new start. But what’s in store for him in the Racing to save the treaty signing and the lives finding the lost Lansky millions. Desperate for help,
K Keys is far more than that—it is an opportunity of the President and the Castro brothers, this Mike calls upon his best friend, Jake Sullivan. Aided by
for redemption. The twists and turns in this second novel by Chip Bell heads to an explosive a former Lansky employee, Silvio Caroselli, and Manuel
debut novel by Chip Bell, a practicing finish where Jake discovers the true nature of the Ortega, the new Chief of Havana Police, Mike and Jake
attorney himself, turns into a political thriller danger they face and finds himself in one final track clues through a maze of leads, racing to find the
of great complexity and tension, unraveling a battle—a battle for his life and the lives of his treasure and save Paula’s life.
pl plot that leads all the way to the White House. family now that he realizes the ultimate truth— Chip Bell’s third novel takes the reader on a twisted
the target all along was him. treasure hunt that begins in 1950s Havana and leads to an
ending that no one, especially Mike or Jake, could have
thought possible.

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