Murder on the High Seas
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…
“Brilliant… The action never slows down.” –Anne Rule, New York Times bestselling author
“[Cope] does a fine job of creating suspense" –The New York Times
Carol Soret Cope Bestselling Author of In the Fast Lane
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