Bøger af Mack Cameron

In April of 1976 handsome Tony Gable comes to NewOrleans for the reading of the will of his father's deceased sister, Madeline Benedetti. At stake is a multi-million dollar estate in Devil's Swamp in rural Hancock County, Mississippi, near the coastal town of Bay St. Louis. Attending the meeting are the Godfather from New York and mob bosses from several major cities. The Godfather asks the local mob boss, Juan Bartolli, if it would be alright for Tony to stay in the area and possibly be shown aroundBartolli's operation. Bartolli agrees and arranges for his associates to have Tony present when some of his operation's illegal activities take place. One of those associates is the sheriff of Hancock County, Raymond Burdette, who drives Tony several miles south of NewOrleans to view Bartolli's estate, where some of the gang's more serious problems are dealt with.During a meeting with Bartolli, Tony is told to try to befriend Hancock County Deputy Sheriff Mark Patterson, who has been responsible for recent drug shipment seizures that have cost the Bartolli gang over one million dollars. While attempting to get toknow him, Tony meets Patterson's girlfriend, the beautiful Karen Thompson, and three of her friends at the Baked Tomato, a local bar and nightclub near the waterfront in Bay St. Louis. He is graduallyexposed to more of the organization's shipping operations in the area, including the utilization of an off-shore drilling rig as a storage and transfer point and the use of pastureland as a landing zone.Tony is present when Bartolli and his gang have a shoot-out with a group that has stolen one of the gang's shipments. Bartolli's actions and plans cause Tony to question his association with the gang. Madeaware of an upcoming attempt on someone's life, he is forced to make a determination concerning courses of action that he might take. His decision leads to things happening that are totally unexpected.

Tony Gable had to leave the Gulf Coast for LA on his motorcycle after the attack south of New Orleans as set forth in "You Just Never Know." Using his Karate skills, he soon becomes a movie star in several of the new action movies being made there. After several years, he receives a call asking him to come visit the man who had saved his life there, Sheriff Mark Patterson. He returned to Mississippi where Sheriff Patterson passes away only a few hours after asking Tony to protect his wife, Karen, their daughter, Jean, and their grand-son and autistic grand-daughter. Karen believed that the autism was caused by the shots that had been given to their grand-daughter when she was two years old.Becoming aware of things he felt should be checked into further, Tony thought that he needed some help so he went to see his family members who lived in the New York City area. While meeting with them, he found out that one of his relatives had worked for the CIA for many years, mostly on computers, and had only recently retired. Tony asked him to look into things about autism and the companies that Karen felt were responsible for her grand-daughter's autism.As Tony investigates why the Sheriff may have been concerned about his family, he has flashbacks about things that his father had told him about when he had been much younger, such as shootouts in the bayou and attempts during the roaring 20's by federal liquor agents to stop shipments of booze from coming into the area from Cuba. Eventually, Tony uncovers several matters that require him to consider doing "whatever it takes" to deal with them.