Jim
Leighton is young, fit, and hungry for excitement—and
his dream of adventure is coming true, now that he's been hired
as a deckhand and personal trainer to a wealthy investment banker
and setting sail for Rio de Janeiro aboard the luxury yacht Hustle.
But Jim's enigmatic employer is not what he seems. With all his
money, charm, and seafaring tales, Will Sparks is a man who's
guarding a terrifying, potentially lethal secret. And in the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean, Sparks makes a startling announcement:
They are changing course for Africa because someone is pursuing
them. Someone who wants them dead.
With
no previous sailing experience—far from the sanctuary of
land and in the company of a stranger who is possibly delusional
and certainly dangerous—Jim is suddenly trapped in a harrowing
race for survival across the vast waters of the globe, fleeing
a faceless threat that inexplicably knows where they are and where
they are going. And when destiny places him alone at the helm,
Jim's options are reduced to two: sail or die, because the terror
relentlessly approaching at breakneck speed will not be shaken
off or deterred—nor will it rest until Hustle and Jim Leighton
both lie broken and lifeless on the ocean floor.
“Garrison ratchets up the suspense
in deft segments, and his portrait of an angry sea is fully alive,
from nights of star-filled beauty to tornadolike waterspouts and
hazardous ice floes.”
—Publisher's
Weekly
