End of the Ocean
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the author of the popular cult classics Frank Sinatra in a Blender and A Swollen Red Sun comes a riveting novel of redemption and suspense that asks the question: just how far are you willing to go for love? Would you give up everything you’ve ever known? Risk your freedom? Risk your life?
When newly divorced Sage arrives in Bali, his only plan is to drink on the beach until his money runs out and then return home to start over. So he’s caught by surprise when he falls in love with the country and its people, particularly the attractive and considerate Ratri. Soon Sage can no longer see himself living anywhere else, even as his funds dwindle and his visa’s expiration date nears. Increasingly desperate to stay with Ratri, Sage finds himself being recruited by a drug-smuggling ring—in a country where drug trafficking is punishable by death. The promised pay-out would be enough to set Sage and Ratri up for life, but only if Sage isn’t caught. Will Sage go home and risk the life he envisions with Ratri, or risk everything to stay and make that life possible?
Both lyrical and suspenseful, intimate and ambitious, END OF THE OCEAN is an unforgettable look at a brutal business in one of the most beautiful places on earth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the wake of a painful divorce, Sage, the hero of this diverting, if often sordid, tale of drug smuggling from McBride (A Swollen Red Sun), travels to the Indonesian island of Bali "to find himself or to lose himself." Instead, he finds Wayne Tender, a crude Australian with apparent connections to the drug trade, and Ratri, a beautiful local woman with whom he falls in love. While it's Wayne with the help of various other seedy folks who provides the opportunity for Sage to get sucked into the world of drug smuggling, it's his attraction to Ratri (and his desire to figure out a way for them to have a life together) that makes the opportunity tempting. McBride does a nice job slowly developing his characters and their milieu, avoiding at least some of the more egregious clich s of the genre. He's not perfectly successful, but there's enough nuance to the story to render the flaws forgivable and keep the tension high.
