The Catalina Cabal
The Catalina Cabal A peaceful sail around Catalina Island takes an ugly turn as a professional bodyguard gets dragged into the middle of a violent human smuggling ring.Badger Thompson finds the body of a young Chinese w
A peaceful sail around Catalina Island takes an ugly turn as a professional bodyguard gets dragged into the middle of a violent human smuggling ring.Badger Thompson finds the body of a young Chinese woman floating in the ocean Stuffed in her life jacket is a large wad of cash, a fake ID, and the body goes unclaimed He knows he should just walk away and leave it to the auA peaceful sail around Catalina Island takes an ugly turn as a professional bodyguard gets dragged into the middle of a violent human smuggling ring.Badger Thompson finds the body of a young Chinese woman floating in the ocean Stuffed in her life jacket is a large wad of cash, a fake ID, and the body goes unclaimed He knows he should just walk away and leave it to the authorities, but it s not in his nature, and when he keeps digging deeper at the mystery it sets off a chain reaction that brings him to the center of the storm, and a conspiracy that should have stayed secret.
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[E-Book] ✓ The Catalina Cabal | BY ✓ Bill Thesken
Bill Thesken
I was born in Whittier, East Los Angeles in 1957, moved south to Mission Viejo in 1967 and graduated High School in 1975 In 1977 I drove to Ketchikan, Alaska, worked for a month on the docks, then flew to Hawaii to go surfing and never looked back.My first job was as a food runner at Lion Country Safari in Irvine, and since then worked as a car detailer, warehouse stocker, dishwasher, short order cook, busboy, stevedore, bellhop, shuttle driver, mason, painter, laborer, the guy with the shovel on concrete pours, fisherman, taro farmer, real estate broker, bartender, and writer Although writing isn t really work when it s going well It s like transcendental neuro athletics, hand eye mind coordination typing as fast as you can to keep up with the flow of words as they build a world on paper.When I was growing up, my Dad would read about 3 novels a week, they were laying all over the place, piled in the corners, on desks and tables, mostly crime novels, so about a year ago I split from my Action Adventure genre and wrote a crime novel for him, titled Edge of the Pit This year I followed it up with The Catalina Cabal.I finished my first novel when I was 36, then got busy raising kids, and didn t attempt another till 20 years later when I wrote 4 in 3 years, which still seems a little weak I need to step it up a bit.My birthday is on June 1, which is the first day of Hurricane Season in Hawaii My wife says that explains a lot