Scorpion

Somewhere over the Caribbean Sea. A bomb goes off in the 747, oxygen masks fall. DEA agent Bill Broxton grabs onto Maria Lawson, the passing flight attendant, wrestles her into his lap, then into the adjacent seat. Once she's safely strapped in, he turns and checks the rear of the first class section as the pilot struggles to get the plane under control. Broxton is worried about the safety of the Prime Minister as he has orders to try and keep him alive.

The Prime Minister of Trinidad is trying to end the drug trade in his country and that has put him on the Salizar drug cartel's hit list. They've hired the infamous international assassin called the Scorpion to take him out. Satisfied the PM is safe for the moment, he turns to Maria, notices the black eye she's tried to cover with make up and pries out of her the fact that she's married to an abusive SOB and he convinces her to leave him, then later, on the ground, after a harrowing landing, Maria calls her West Texan small town Sheriff husband and tells him she's not coming home.

Solitude, West Texas. Sheriff Earl Lawson and a deputy raid a warehouse where they suspect they'll find drugs and stolen goods. There is a shoot out, one of the two criminals is shot. When Earl finds a briefcase full of money, he kills the remaining crook, then after a struggle, the deputy. When he gets home, he plays the messages on his answer machine and finds out his wife isn't coming back. Angry, he buys a ticket to Trinidad.

Trinidad, West Indies. Broxton shares a taxi with Maria to the Hilton and someone tries to run them off the road. Later, at the American Embassy, Broxton checks in with his old friend, Warren Street, the American Ambassador. It is because of his friendship with the ambassador that the DEA picked Broxton, an analyst and not a field agent, for this assignment. Broxton can't wait to see Warren's daughter Dani, as he plans on proposing marriage.

What Broxton doesn't know is that Dani is the Scorpion and that she has been paid to kill the very man he's been assigned to protect. She has killed political leaders before, she's a pro, but she can't kill Prime Minister Ramsingh because he is an old family friend. She can use a bomb as killing by remote control is different than putting the man in her cross hairs.

Earl arrives in Trinidad, sees Maria with Broxton out at the hotel pool, watches them from the bar, asks questions about the man she's with. A pretty woman seems to be flirting with him, but she leaves. Earl goes up to his room and is confronted by Dani, the pretty woman. She has gone through his things, found his money and discovered, much to Earl's chagrin that it's counterfeit. She tells Earl she knows a way he can make it real and have so much more.

"Who do I have to kill," he asks.

"The Prime Minister of Trinidad," she says.

"I could do that," he says.

And thus begins the partnership of two truly deranged people. Dani finds a mirror of herself in Earl, just one look at her and Earl forgets the wife he'd come so far to drag back to Texas. He is a changed man, in a changed relationship. Besides, he knows if he raises a fist to Dani, it will be the last thing he ever does. Then there is the money to consider.

SCOPRION is a character driven thriller that will have you tasting the salty air as you sail the Caribbean sea with Broxton and the Prime Minister as they flee the assassins and it'll have your blood speeding through your veins as you race along with Broxton and Maria in a desperate effort to save Prime Minister Ramsingh from the Scorpion in a thrilling climax you'll never forget.

Bill Broxton is the DEA agent assigned to protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from the Salizar drug cartel. They are using Trinidad as staging area to get their product into the United States, however, they are leaving a lot of their cocaine behind in the small island nation and Prime Minister Ramsingh has sworn to put an end to it.

George Chandee is the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. He is secretly working with the Salizar drug cartel. His reward in aiding them in killing the PM, the prime minister's job.

Dani Street is the daughter of the American Ambassador to Trinidad. She is also the girl Broxton is in love with. He plans on asking her to marry him when he gets to Trinidad. What he doesn't know is that she leads a secret life as the international assassin known only as the Scorpion. She has been hired by Chandee and the drug barons to assassinate the prime minister.

SCORPION is a thriller that will grab you from page one and it won't let you go until the chilling climax. We at Bootleg Press sincerely believe this, and we're not just saying it because it's what were supposed to say. Give the book a try, we think you'll like it, we think you'll be back for more.

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