Privateers
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Product Details
Publisher: BlackType Press
Release Date: March 31, 2020
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Ebook
ISBN: HC: 978-1-7344368-2-2; PB: 978-1-7344368-0-8; EB: 978-1-7344368-1-5
Trim: 6 x 9
Page Count: 426
Charlie Newton
Winner of American Book Fest's International Book Awards, Thriller Category and Winner of Goodreads Reader's Favorite Award, Thriller Category
Three fierce women. A ghost ship’s treasure. And a bone-chilling Caribbean warlord.
“Slavery and murder are beneath your brightest lights and softest sheets, the clothes you wear the fruit you eat . . . the covert intelligence you solicit to defend it all.”
World War I rages. US marines storm Haiti’s Banque Nationale, loot $26 million in gold, then vanish. A century later, clues surface during the demolition of a Chicago racetrack, pointing to the Corazón Santo—the notorious triangle of Havana, Kingston, and Port-au-Prince. Three fierce, vibrant women reunite to hunt the treasure, hoping it will buy their survival from a long-buried, catastrophic misjudgment. They conscript a streetwise Chicago horseplayer’s help, then risk a return into the Caribbean’s mangrove jungles and mountains that have tried to kill them before. The uneasy partners are quickly swallowed in a terrifying labyrinth of shadow government and modern-day piracy where a final choice will be forced upon them: gold, survival, or redemption?
About the Author
Charlie Newton is a Chicago native, a writer known for a global life on the road and extended MIA absences. When he does publish, Newton’s heart-pounding, gritty, and witty realism has been a starred-review favorite of the critics and a finalist for the Edgar, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the Macavity, and the International Thriller Writers awards. Newton is the author of Calumet City (Simon & Schuster, 2008), Start Shooting (Doubleday, 2012), and Traitor’s Gate (Thomas & Mercer, 2015).
Visit the author’s website at charlienewton.com
Reviews
“Charlie Newton is the real deal. I’ll read anything he writes.” —New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
“Privateers rocks from beginning to explosive end.” —Robert Dugoni, #1 Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series
“Not a stone left unturned, or a word wasted, or a dull page to be found. A wonderful story from a master storyteller.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series
“A spellbinding tale of three strong women fighting to survive in the hunt for a lost treasure in the deadly swamps and jungles of the Corazon Santo, the holy heart of the Caribbean triangle between Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica. Charlie Newton is a wordsmith extraordinaire who writes like a poet.” —Todd Merer, author of The Extraditionist
“Privateers grabs you by the collar and won’t let go until Charlie Newton gives the nod. Rarely have I read a book so absorbing, so sharply written, so filled with action that it thrusts you into the real world and makes you look hard at its beauty and its heartbreak.” —Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Get Capone
“Privateers hits the ground running and builds to hurricane-level intensity. In the midst of this white-knuckle thriller, Newton shows how the West perpetuates many of the third-world evils it claims to want to cure.” —Andrew Diamond, award-winning author of Impala
“There’s a search for gold in the plot of Privateers, but the real gold is Newton’s writing. Riffs conjure Hunter Thompson or James Ellroy, but Newton owns them all. Words shimmer off Caribbean waters as the story dodges, feints, and streaks to the next turn.” —Kirk Russell, author of Dead Game