Deadly Catch
A Mac McClellan Mystery
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Publisher Description
“The first cast of the day turned my dream vacation into a nightmare. . . .” After twenty-four years in the U.S. Marines, recently retired Mac McClellan is happy to be a civilian again. He is enjoying a leisurely fishing vacation in the Florida panhandle when he hooks a badly decomposed body. Then, when a bag of rare marijuana is discovered stashed aboard his rental boat, he realizes someone is setting him up to take the fall for murder and drug smuggling. Mac’s plans for a more laid-back life must be put on hold while he works to clear his name as the number one suspect. Mac launches an investigation with the help of Kate Bell, a feisty saleslady at the local marina with whom he has struck up a promising relationship. Along the way he must butt heads and match wits with local law enforcement officials, shady politicians, and strong-armed thugs from the Eastern Seaboard to sniff out and bring the real smuggler and killer to justice. From the Trade Paperback edition.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lackluster development wastes a promising setting in the first thriller from Helms, author of the military memoir The Proud Bastards. A tough 24-year-old Marine veteran, currently unemployed, Mac McClellan has stopped in the Florida panhandle to do some fishing. Unfortunately, hooking the rotting body of a murdered teenaged heiress, Madison "Maddie" Lynn Harper, lands him in a web of family intrigue and big-time marijuana smuggling. Mac warily accepts an offer from Sheriff Bo Pickron, Maddie's uncle, to become an undercover investigator, further entangling himself in the case. Helms has a gift for local color and action sequences, as shown in Mac's trek into a snake-infested state park to locate a pot plantation, but the complicated plot gets bogged down in cumbersome exposition. The novel is intended to be the first in a series; hopefully Mac will either become more nimble or stay retired.
