A Southern noir thriller for readers who enjoy atmospheric mysteries and morally complicated lawmen.
Three weeks after Hurricane Marlena tears through the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Coast Guard Lieutenant Luke Reeves finds a Vietnamese shrimping boat grounded deep in the marsh.
The storm damage is bad.
The bullet holes are worse.
The crew is missing, the radio has been smashed, the GPS is gone, and empty drug packaging lies hidden in the flooded hold. What first looked like another piece of hurricane wreckage becomes a federal crime scene tied to cartel smuggling, missing fishermen, and a community already fighting to survive.
U.S. Marshal Jack Beauregard is sent to Biloxi to help lead the corruption side of the investigation. Partnered with FBI Agent Tommy Tran, whose own family is rooted in the Vietnamese fishing community, Jack has to untangle a case where desperate men make bad choices, frightened witnesses stay silent, and powerful people use disaster recovery as cover.
As the bodies surface and the pressure tightens, Jack and Tommy follow the trail from storm-battered docks to port offices, casino back rooms, and the polished world of Gulf Coast recovery money.
Someone is moving drugs through the broken coast.
Someone is protecting them.
And after Marlena, the line between victim and criminal is thinner than ever.
Gulf Storms is book 2 in The Jack Beauregard Thrillers. It can be read as a standalone Southern crime thriller.
