Scorpion

Scorpion is a sea going adventure story that takes place in the Caribbean. The Prime Minister of Trinidad has been targeted by a drug cartel because he has been trying to close down their operation in his country. The bad guy drug smugglers have hired the international assassin called the Scorpion to deal with the PM and the U.S. Government has sent DEA agent Bill Broxton to protect the PM. However, the PM doesn't want American assistance and to make matters even worse for Broxton, the assassin is the woman he wants to marry, only he doesn't know it. Fortunately for Broxton, another lady enters his life, so his heartbreak will be brief, but his actions will put her in jeopardy. And that, my friends, is a very brief description of what goes on in the beginning of this action-adventure thriller. Sailboats, smugglers, an evil woman assassin, a guy too good for his own good and more. This is just a super book and I really liked it.

SCORPION is a stay up all night thriller that moves from Trinidad in the Southern Caribbean to South Texas, to Venezuela and back to Trinidad and you can feel the heat and humidity of those places as you read. Mr. Stewart puts you right into the action as you move through the pages, so when you join DEA agent Bill Broxton as he tries to stop an assassin, be prepared for some serious escape time. DEA agent Bill Broxton has been assigned to protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from the Scorpion, an assassin hired by the Salizar drug cartel, because his girlfriend Dani, who he soon hopes to make his bride, is the daughter of the American Ambassador. It's because Broxton is so close to the ambassador that makes him perfect for the assignment, as the Prime Minister has refused American help, instead turning to his own Justice Minister for security. So Broxton is supposed to use his connection with ambassador to get close to the PM, however Dani isn't as pure as the driven snow. Broxton may be carrying a torch in his heart and a ring in his pocket, but she's been carrying an assassin's guns and playing the field. She is the Scorpion who has been hired to take out Broxton's charge. And who is she working for? None other than the justice minister in charge of keeping the P.M. safe. SCORPION has it all, foreign intrigue, deadly bad guys, a good guy in over his head, romance, terrific chase scenes and best of all, an ending you'll never see coming. I couldn't put this one down and I don't think you will be able to either.

Bill Broxton is a DEA agent who has been assigned the duty of protecting the Prime Minister of Trinidad Ramsing.On a flight to Trinidad a bomb goes off.During this crisis Broxton saves Maria Lawson.He notices that she has a blackeye.This shiner has been given to her by her husband Sheriff Earl Lawson.Broxton is also flying to Trinidad to ask his childhood sweetheart Dani Street to marry him. Unknown to him Dani is really the hired assassin "The Scorpion".Shen has been responsible for several paid killings on a worldwide basis. Maria informs her husband Sheriff Earl Lawson that she is not coming home.Earl flies to Trinidad to find his wife.He winds up being a joint assassin with the Scorpion,Dani Street. Several attempts are made to kill Prime Minister Ramsing but Broxton saves the Prime Minister each time.The sinister force behind the assassination attempts is Attorney General George Chandee.He is on the payroll of the Salizar drug ring. This is a very entertaining book.It is handled by Bootleg Press.I was very pleased with their product.This book will keep you on the edge of youe seat.Buy it and read it.

I read "Hurricane" a couple months ago, and since that was the second story about DEA agent Bill Broxton, I figured I already knew all I needed to know about him, so there was no point in going back and reading the first one. Boy was I ever wrong. "Hurricane" was a darned good book, but much to my surprise, "Scorpion" was better. I bought them at the same time, and because I'd read the second one first, I just shelved "Scorpion" not bringing it out till I had to take a long plane ride to Madrid. First off, let me tell you this, you definitely don't want to be reading the first couple chapters as you're taxing down the runway on a jet plane. A bomb goes off, oxygen mask fall, yeah this isn't the kind of stuff you want to be soaking up when you are in the air. I'm not a big fan of flying anyway, so when those fictional masks fell, my eyes went upward, then I started checking out the other passengers. They were all so calm. After I got past the harrowing plane ride and the eventual safe landing, I breathed a sigh of relieve, ordered a Bloody Mary from the flight attendant and went back to the story, where I stayed till we hit some turbulence. Whew, turbulence, I hate that. Then I went back to the book again, finishing it just as the captain turned on the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign for our landing in Madrid. The story stole my flight away and what a wonderful thing that was. It is just so much better to be chasing assassins, finding lovers and fighting bad guys, than it is to be cooped up in an aluminum tube, hurtling through the sky at six-hundred miles an hour. I just loved this book.

Once again I have to declare my bias for a book because I know the author. Well at least this time it's not my husband, but a friend. But even if Jack Stewart and I weren't such good friends, I'd still give Scorpion five stars. It's a terrific adventure thriller that takes place in the Caribbean where I lived for ten years on a sailboat, so of course the book grabbed me right from the get go. This is Jack's first book, but certainly not the first thing that old pirate has ever written. He's an excellent short story writer and if you ever come across one of his self-published collections, you'll have a treasure, though the couple I've seen were pretty battered, having been passed along from cruising sailor to cruising sailor in the Caribbean. Anyway with my bias declared, let me get on with my report.Bill Broxton grabs his seatbelt, cinches it tighter, as the sound of the explosion rips through the plane. Bomb is his first thought and bomb it was. He grabs the passing flight attendent, pulls her into his lap, wrestles her into the unoccupied seat next to his, helps her strap in. Then he turns toward the back of the first class section to see if Trinidad's Prime Minister Ramsingh is all right. Broxton is a DEA agent and he has been assigned the difficult job of keeping Ramsingh alive. Difficult, because Ramsingh doesn't want American help or protection in his war against the Colombian drug cartel that is flooding his country with their product, then reshipping it to the United States.The Salazar drug cartel wants Ramsingh dead so badly, that they'll takeout a plane load of passengers along with him, if that's what they have to do to achieve their objective. However, fortunately for Ramsingh, Broxton and the rest of the passengers, the pilot is able to land the plane safely at Trinidad's Piarco Airport.On arrival Broxton gets a cab to the American Ambassador's residence and he barely gets there with his life. Someone doesn't want him interfering. The Ambassador is an old friend and father of the girl he plans to marry. He tells the Ambassador that U.S. intelligence has found out that the international assassin known only as the Scorpion has targeted Ramsingh and that the prime minister has refused American help. It's a difficult job Broxton has, protecting someone who doesn't want protecting, and it's made all the more difficult because the Scorpion is none other than the Ambassador's daughter, the girl he loves.SCORPION is a stay up all night thriller that I highly recommend. It's a fast, fun read and I'd say that even if I didn't know the author. As I said above, five stars from me for this one. I hope you try it and I hope you like it as much as I did.Reviewed by Vesta Irene