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Key West runs blood red as Jack Marsh is caught between a ruthless Cuban Drug Lord, known as El Condor, that has had ten million dollars stolen from him by someone in Key West, and an aging Mafia Don that knows who made the heist, and will kill to get it for himself. The heart pounding race through Old Town Key West, a storm tossed crossing of the Florida Strait to an isolated beach on the north shore of Cuba, then back out to a showdown in the deep waters around an old coral cay has Jack Marsh running against the clock as he tries to determine who is friend and who is foe …and how to dump the money before he gets himself killed.The mystique of Key West, the beauty of the coral reefs and cays surrounding the area, the mysterious deep waters of the Florida Strait known as The Blue. The characters that make Key West the magnet of the Islands all come alive in an action suspense thriller that will leave you breathless.

The Key West Bounce. A pure adrenaline rush of hard hitting, hard talking characters caught up in a chase for a fortune in gold locked inside a U.S. C-130 Aircraft that has been sitting on the floor of the Florida Straits for over fifty years. Jack Marsh is pulled into the hunt for the treasure by an old East German Stasi agent who knows where the plane is and how it got there. Always looking for easy money, Marsh recruits his friend Tommy Hicks, Captain of their salvage and dive boat, The Island Queen. Soon the three men are locked in a seesaw battle among themselves, a gang of Jamaican cutthroats, the Cuban DGI Secret Police, and a group of Cuban expatriates from Miami who claim the gold as theirs and need it to continue their fight against Castro. The fight is waged across and under the waters of the Straits as the hunt is narrowed to a small strip of palm-covered sand called Crab Cay and its surrounding waters. The clear tropical waters are soon red with blood and thousands of gold coins. Marsh and Hicks are soon fighting for their lives: vessel to vessel, gunwale to gunwale, and hand to hand as treachery and duplicity is played out. It finally comes down to two men, face to face, one will live, and one will die…the gold the prize. There is enough action and suspense in this story to satisfy the most hardened of thriller readers.

The Key West Drop, A Jack Marsh Action Thriller A nonstop Action Thriller about one of the most secret International human tragedies of the twenty-first century, Human Trafficking. Key West Drop is a suspense filled rampage of murder, money, greed, betrayal, white slavery, and drugs. Jack Marsh goes toe to toe with the Israeli Mafia to save a shipment of captive women destined for the Mideast slave market. The I.M.’s first mistake was to snatch Jack’s best friend because he knew of their planned shipment, their second mistake was that they threatened to kill his friend if he didn’t back off. Their third mistake was to underestimate an adversary that would stop at nothing to bring the gang down. The action rolls through the Florida Keys, Key West, Miami, and a final fight on the tempest torn waters of the Florida Strait. The climax will leave you stunned.

Key West Storm Warning is a tale of action, suspense, treachery, and murder in and around Key West, Florida. Jack Marsh and his crew have discovered a fortune in silver and emeralds off Storm Reef from one of Hernán Cortéz’s treasure ships that sank in 1520 on its way back to Spain. The crew works against time as a huge Cat-4 hurricane barrels across the Caribbean Sea towards the salvage operation. The salvage and retrieval of the treasure turns deadly when word leaks out about the find. Marsh’s deadly adversary, Sonny Dupree learns of the discovery and quickly turns up at the dive site with plans to take the treasure and sink Marsh’s salvage boat, the Island Queen, with all hands onboard. The action rages above and below the surface in unrelenting suspense as men fight to the death aboard the rotted carcass of the ancient ship deep below the surface. The survivor takes all….but first they have to survive the storm.

KINDLE AUTHORS CUT. RE-FORMATTED! RE-EDITED! RE-PUBLISHED! Jack Marsh takes on the new Tonton Macoute, Haiti’s feared secret paramilitary force under Marcel ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier. Three people know the secret account numbers that hold billions of dollars stashed by Little Doc’s grandfather, ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier, known as The Butcher of Haiti. Two of the people are dead, Jack Marsh is the third man that knows the account numbers, and he’s diving for cover. The Key West Boneyard is a fast-paced entertaining read and is the fourth in the Jack Marsh Key West Series.

COVER-TO-COVER HARD HITTING GRITTY ACTION. D.O.A. Is Pettit’s most ambitious work in his Key West Action Thriller Series. Jack Marsh takes on a salvage job to recover one of Egypt’s most treasured antiquities, the sarcophagus of the last pharaoh. Egypt is on the verge of collapse after the Muslim Brotherhood squandered the country’s treasury leaving it financially broke with tribal loyalties tearing the country apart. The government arranges for the sarcophagus to be auctioned off by Rothschild’s, a prestigious auction house in New York City. The secret shipment of the sarcophagus is discovered by Egypt’s enemies who want the antiquity for their own gain. Soon the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, the Mossad, CIA, and various loners are on the hunt. The Freighter with the sarcophagus aboard is lost in a hurricane off the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea. Rothschild’s send their best recovery agent, Briar Malone, to find the treasure and deliver it to the auction house safely and intact. Agent Malone hires Jack Marsh to help in the recovery, and the treachery begins. The betrayals, the duplicity, the double-cross, the lies, all unravel as the Island Queen plows her way south. Jack Marsh and Briar Malone take on assassins, terrorists, secret agencies, loners, and opportunists. Some live, some die, but no one gets away unscathed. The finale is a heart-pounding, breath-holding, shocker.

KEY WEST CURSE is a Sea Adventure that rivals Clive Cussler in its Suspense and Thriller intensity. An Action Adventure that brings powerful forces together in a struggle to the death. It is a Sea Story of five billion dollars in gold bullion belonging to Venezuela, stolen by Hugo Chavez before he died. The gold is aboard a sunken Soviet era submarine belonging to Cuba. Also aboard is a lead lined container filled with fissionable material. The discovery by a salvage crew aboard the Seabird Explorer sets off a chain of events that quickly turns to unimagined actions. Filled with men that will do or say anything to get the gold, political greed, murder, cowardice, freebooters, voodoo, a pandemic threat, ruthless gangs, and men caught up in the worse addiction in the world…. Treasure.

2017 Mystery Writers ‘Whodunit’ Award A.R.C. Reviews “Out Cussler’s Cussler. A Sea Story that will set the standard for all future Sea Stories.” David Hefner, Sheriff, Brown County. “Frederick Forsythe comes to mind in its vitality and tautness. A story well told.” Jerry Shane, Editor “A swashbuckler of a read. Caps off a wonderful series of the Caribbean Islands.” Martha Nash, Critic & Reviewer KEY WEST FLASHPOINT, a Jack Marsh Action Thriller by Mike Pettit Venezuela is on fire; President Maduro is trying to build the country into a socialist utopia. One problem... The countries National Treasure is missing.... without money Maduro’s dream will die and the country will go up in flames. Jack Marsh knows where the treasure is and has his own plans for what to do with five billion dollars in gold. There is one small catch, every Country and Island State in the Caribbean are watching Marsh and his crew aboard the Island Queen and have their own plans for the treasure. Soon the Caribbean Sea is awash with warships, gunboats, and frigates under a dozen national flags all zeroing in on 14:00°North / 76°.20 West. The storm is raging; the Island Queen is burning. Divers are down, gunboats off the starboard bow are pumping in rounds. Jack's trapped in the burning engine room. Chief is missing, washed overboard, Rooster is ninety feet below out of air… The situation couldn’t get any worse… but, it does.

BOLD! EXPLOSIVE! GRIT-LIT ACTION FROM THE FIRST PAGE! Not since Papillion has there been such a brutal story of survival, determination, and revenge. Sure, to be a Best Selling Sensation with Action Thriller readers “Boss Dalton hung Jack by his feet with a quarter-inch cable and left him exposed to everything the Everglades had to offer in torment. With his hands tied behind his back, he had no defense against the buzzing and biting attacks on his naked body. The night was terrifying, filled with creepy crawling, stinging, biting insects and creatures of the swamp. The prisoner swinging next to him screamed insanely throughout the night, by daylight the man was silent with insanely vacant eyes that stared off into green haze. Jack’s only thought was escape and the revenge he would meet out . . . if he survives.” Framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Jack is propelled into a system within a system of crime and punishment. Where the rule of law is left at the end of an asphalt road and torture begins. The trail leads into the wild Florida Everglades to the secret Camp 3, a camp where the hardest of criminals are sent and never return. Jack’s unbelievable escape with another inmate through snake and alligator infested waters with disease bubbling up from the primordial mud with every step and armed men in pursuit. KEY WEST SLAM has Jack Marsh held in a prison camp deep in the Florida Everglades, a camp that is totally off the grid, where prisoners are sent and never leave. Brutal, torturous days working in waist-deep mangroves alive with snakes, insects, and alligators. Nights filled with cruel sadistic trustee guards where food is used as a weapon and weakness can cost a man his life. #9 in the Jack Marsh Key West Series.