Paradise is the perfect escape for ex-Marine Nick Breakspear, captain of a charter yacht operation in the Bahamas, until he agrees to pilot a "detox cruise" for the drug-addled grown son and daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. Ambushed far from port, he is helpless to prevent the murder of a crew member by modern-day pirates who sink Nick's yacht before vanishing with the senator's kids. Having barely eluded death, Nick must immediately set sail for disaster once again. For there's a death to be avenged on the dark side of Eden, the senator is demanding that his lost children be found . . . and the woman Nick loves is being held prisoner by killers somewhere on Murder Cay.
My wife and I both read this book and have the same view of it. It was very predictable, the characters were proclaimed to be one thing (Ellen: sceptical, cynical; Nick: ex-marine and tough) and then not act in that character. All the characters were fundamentally stupid and had to be scrunched into contrived situations from which dumb luck would extract them. The book was saved only by the portrayal of the cocaine/crack background and the settings. The characters weren't really necessary.
My wife and I both read this book and have the same view of it. It was very predictable, the characters were proclaimed to be one thing (Ellen: sceptical, cynical; Nick: ex-marine and tough) and then not act in that character. All the characters were fundamentally stupid and had to be scrunched into contrived situations from which dumb luck would extract them. The book was saved only by the portrayal of the cocaine/crack background and the settings. The characters weren't really necessary.
