Dan Kilmer is a former Marine sniper in his early thirties. He returned home from military service in the Middle East and gave college a try, but his combat experiences prevented him from fitting into campus life. In a South Florida boatyard, his uncle was attempting to refurbish an old cargo schooner, and Dan left college to help him finish the flagging project. After two years of work but before the sixty-foot boat was relaunched, his uncle fell from a scaffold and died. While still in his twenties, Dan inherited the schooner Rebel Yell. Soon after, he left the United States to embark on a series of voyages, mostly in pursuit of beautiful women and good times. While he was away from America, new federal taxes were imposed on luxury property, including privately owned yachts. Dan cannot pay these or other new taxes, so he can’t return to the States without risking confiscation of his schooner. Instead he must always fly under official radar and earn a living by his wits while staying one step ahead of the IRS and other government agencies. He must navigate the reefs of government control while always searching for a way to make money without the permission of the local authorities. This usually requires some type of shady dealing, subterfuge, and stealing from thieves as Dan moves from port to port. A shifting cast of crew members inhabits Rebel Yell, but the novel is about Dan Kilmer and his quest to live as a free man in an increasingly unfree world. In Castigo Cay, Dan must sneak back into South Florida under the radar to conduct a short-fuse rescue operation. The first hundred pages of Castigo Cay (and all of my novels) can be read on my website.
Read it in 3 days on my Kindle. An absolutely riveting story. You make your characters incredibly believable and develop them enough to make me love or hate them even after I’ve finished the book!
Matt,
I read this on my Kindle last month, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it. You have a real gift for storytelling and writing, and I hope you continue.
I see it’s available for Kindle. Looks like I’ll be downloading it for Father’s Day!
Great read, Matt. It's really engaging -- one of those books where you've been reading for a while and it's getting late, and you tell yourself "I'll stop at the end of this chapter." By the end of which you continue on because you just have to know what happens next.
This book would make a great movie.
I just ordered my hardcopy. I wish it came with a free Kindle copy. I want it on my shelf when I am done but would enjoy the freedom of having an electronic version. Obviously, such enjoyment has a value to me of less than ten dollars.
Excellent! Off to Amazon...
When can I get the trilogy for my Nook?
UP!!! got your card in the mail too... check isn't in the mail YET, but will be soonI feel almost like I have read that before...... Good work. Glad ya finished it Sir.
Well done......stay safe.
I got your postcard, ordering soon.
You've done your namesake proud. I can just about see him at Slip F-18 at Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Loo, laying back on a lawn chair on the deck and eagerly reading CC, laughing his head off.
Congrats! will definately read them, loved the rogue warrior series too!
Got your post card, small unmarked bills on the way!
Hooyah!
TS
Thank you Matt for your writing. You are talented and convey the true message about challenges to our freedom!
I Kindled CC from Amazon just now. I could tell after the first few chapters of the preview that I was snared. Starting Ch. 9 now ...
If the film industry in this country wasn’t filled with politically-correct eunuchs, you would be working on your 4th film.
Awesome, many thanks!
Its so hard to see in some stores real honest talent as nowadays, where I live in Wasilla, AK the big box stores only keep well known authors and the sole book store is terribly liberal favored.
downloading to the Kindle right now...
Matt, I ordered it from Amazon, thanks for your great work, you books are the best and I enjoy them immensely!!
The happy old curmudgeon,
Blackie