Carol Cope
Carol Soret Cope is the author of two previous nonfiction books, the bestseller In the Fast Lane: A True Story of Murder in Miami and Stranger Danger: How to Keep Your Child Safe.
Carol Soret Cope’s newest book, Murder on the High Seas, the True Story of the Joe Cool’s Tragic Final Voyage, captures the unique flavor of practice in South Florida. Ironically much of the story unfolds in a federal court building designed to look like a boat.
On routine patrol off the coast of Cuba, a United States Coast Guard cutter spotted a “ghost ship” – a luxury forty-seven-foot sportfisher drifting on the tide, abandoned and out of fuel, its interior ransacked and its deck speckled with blood.
The next morning, a helicopter crew plucked two men from a life raft nearby. Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo told resuers they had chartered the Joe Cool from a one-way trip from Miami to the Bahamas. They went on to tell an incredible story – pirates had ambushed the boat, killing the captain, his wife, and two crew members. Only Archer and Zarabozo had survived.
But as the FBI investigated, Archer and Zarabozo’s story began to fall apart. A far more bizarre tale unfolded in a Miami federal courtroom as prosecutors make the case that the captain and crew had indeed been hijacked and murdered – not by pirates, but by their own charter passengers…
“[Cope] does a fine job of creating suspense" –The New York Times
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