Book description
John Deal's life is finally coming together--he is reunited with his
lovely wife, they have a beautiful baby, and DealCo, his Miami
construction business, is booming with post-Hurricane Andrew contracts
rolling in. The future looks bright...until the night that his house is
engulfed by an arsonist's flames and his wife is terribly burned.
Unbeknownst to him, Deal has stumbled into the path of the sickly sweet
plans of sugar cane magnate and Cuban imigri power broker, Vicente Luis
Torreno, a man obsessed by his dreams of a repatriated Cuba and the
juicy profits of the sugar monopoly he is sure will come with it.
Torreno's sugar-coated influence reaches to the highest levels of the U.
S. Government, a fact that more than complicates Deal's efforts to find
out who is responsible for this latest tragedy and to avoid joining the
string of bodies that litter the South Florida landscape, all the way
from the vast cane fields of Lake Okeechobee to the shores of Biscayne
Bay. Les Standiford is the bestselling author of twenty books and
novels, including the John Deal mystery series, and the works of
narrative history “The Man Who Invented Christmas”, a “New York Times”
Editor's Choice, and “Last Train to Paradise”. He is the director of the
creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami,
where he lives with his wife, Kimberly, a psychotherapist and artist.
