Haiti Adieu

When the earthquake strikes Haiti, Capt. Max Hardberger is living in a hut on his waterfront property in Miragoane, Haiti. The next morning reveals a mysterious ship aground on his beach, and the following days draw him into a conspiracy—backed by the U.S. State Department—to restore Aristide to Haiti’s presidency by armed rebellion. Capt. Max salvages the stranded ship and agrees to command her on a dangerous voyage to Venezuela for a cargo of arms, but a series of murders onboard and the hijacking of the ship by followers of “Baby Doc” Duvalier force him to make some hard choices. Haiti Adieu pits Capt. Max’s raw intelligence and nautical knowledge against warring gangs and ruthless politicians in a fast-paced novel of intrigue and adventure.

The Sea Bitch

Fleeing the draft and a hitch in Vietnam, in 1971 Lucien "Red" Porter buys an ancient 26' converted lifeboat named Sea Witch and sails south. Frustrated by the boat's inability to sail upwind, he privately renames her Sea Bitch. Surviving a vicious winter storm on the way, he lands in Belize and soon gets involved in a plot to sneak an American drug smuggler out of a Mexican jail. After that, he takes an old Chinese woman as a paying passenger to Jamaica. Another voyage takes him on a surreptitious trip to Venezuela to retrieve a stolen sailboat. On the island of Bequia, he meets a beautiful young woman who takes him to her secret beach, and a French treasure-hunter who gives him a job raising sunken Spanish gold. When he returns to Belize, he finds the country on the brink of an invasion by Guatemala. His adventures as a spy for Belize in Guatemala, his harrowing escape after getting shot in the foot, and his decision to return to the U.S. to face charges of draft evasion, bring an ironic conclusion to the adventures of an alienated young man and his leaky old sailboat. Click here to read an excerpt from The Sea Bitch ...