The Big Deep

Noir - dark, dangerous. The Caribbean - an exquisite paradise that hides sordid secrets. The two nimbly pair in The Big Deep to introduce enigmatic Phillip Blackwell, an exile who finds corruption, conundrums and evil as he sails down the Antilles chain. A decent man recruited by those less so to solve what they can not. In The Big Deep, Blackwell is hired by a rusty debauchee to find his missing young wife and uncovers murder and treachery. The reader is taken from a glamorous mountain top night club and gothic plantations to the island whore house. Blackwell's milieu is stocked with eccentric sailors, women damaged or lethal, the corrupt and the sadistic and an exceptional woman whom he loves but cannot have.Blackwell's milieu is stocked with eccentric sailors, women damaged or lethal, the greedy and an exceptional, unattainable woman. The first of a Noir series, Blackwell will encounter new risks as he navigates the waters and secrets of the West Indies. With his ruminations of sailing as a metaphor for a purer life, we find hints of Blackwell's own cryptic background. The Big Deep, is Noir fiction written with Raymond Chandler hovering and incorporates some of his bon mots peppered in tribute among the author's.

The first in the Phillip Blackwell Caribbean Noir Series. Paperback and Ebook, 276 pages, includes a sample of another of the author's works, Alizé, A Caribbean Love Story.