 “from start to finish the action is crisp and, most of all, I was impressed with the author's knowledge of the setting, mako sharks, benevolent dolphins, and all. It reminds me of one of the better James Bond books or movies.” - Writer's Digest | Caribbean Holiday In Caribbean Holiday, Sextus Durkin is recruited by Mideast interests to abduct his half-brother, Augustus Bishop, in order that they may 'persuade' Bishop to sell them uranium ore. The Arabs seek a nuclear capability for their tiny, oil-rich country.Augustus (Gus) Bishop is a precociously rich entrepreneur, whose initial success was the development of a unique desalinization process with an incidental (but secret) technique for extracting gold from sea water. Neurosurgeons with his medical research facility in Cape Town have successfully implanted a tractability-inducing drug into the cerebrums of a lion and a gorilla. These two dutiful servitors, together with Bishop's women, his yacht and submarine, play important roles in the conflict with Sextus Durkin. Intermingled with this tale of arrogance and greed are the affected blacks in Saint Kitts and the Bahamas, as well as the dangerous mako sharks and friendly dolphins that swim in their waters. |
   A fast paced story, "Caribbean Holiday" has all the ingredients of a perfect suspense thriller.. Wealthy Arabs employ Sextus Durkin to kidnap Augustus Bishop a rich, enterprising individual, who controls a large uranium mine. Bishop only sells to contractors erecting or maintaining power plants, not to anyone interested in developing weapons (the exact purpose of the Arabs). BookWire Review, May 25, 2005 |
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