Jesse McDermitt lives alone on an isolated island in the Florida Keys where he runs a charter fishing business. Retired from the Marine Corps for six years, he wants nothing more than to relax, fish, dive, and enjoy the laid back lifestyle of the isl...
Jesse's back in this exciting sequel to Fallen Palm. Grieving over the loss of his wife to terrorists, Jesse's been holed up on his island home for months, numbing his mind and body with endless, mundane tasks. A friend comes to him asking Jesse to h...
Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt faces an antagonist unlike none that he’s faced before, post-traumatic stress. A friend’s son, dishonorably discharged from the Corps, is suffering from nightmares, brought on by an incident that was the catalyst fo...
When Jesse McDermitt retires from the Marine Corps at age 37, he has no idea what he will do for the rest of his life. He only knows he doesn't want to spend the coming winter anywhere cold. His greatest skill is killing people from up to a mile away...
A Spanish treasure ship is driven by a hurricane onto the rocky shoreline of Elbow Cay in September of 1566. Few of the crew survive, but they manage to salvage most of the treasure and bury it on the island, leaving a clue to its location in a chest...
The quiet and solitude of the back country and wetlands in south Florida has been shattered. Someone is using explosives to fish the ecologically fragile patch reefs in the shallow waters of Florida Bay, north of the Keys. Retired Marine Jesse McDerm...
Key West’s sultry summer heat isn't for the faint of heart. But Michal Grabowski is running from a Pittsburgh cocaine dealer intent on killing him in a slow and painful manner, and Key West is the end of the road. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt enj...
What can be done to stop madness from sweeping the world when political indecision is the norm? When the nation's leaders lack the backbone to stand up to them, what can stop an enemy that knows no rules? Charity.Charity Styles is a former Olympian a...
Coral branches rarely wear a wristwatch. That was Jesse McDermitt’s first thought when he found a partially denuded human arm, teeming with crab, lobster, and fish life, during his morning ocean swim. The discovery of a drifting mega-yacht the foll...
A rushed rescue mission doesn’t go as planned for retired Marine Jesse McDermitt and the crew of Gaspar's Revenge. The two kidnap victims are rescued, but they’d rather be taken back to the Jamaican drug runners who were hired to kill them than r...
After licking her physical and emotional wounds for several months, Charity Styles finally has a shot at redemption when her handler offers her a mission. It's dangerous, sure, but Charity also knows that it's meant as a test of her self-control. In ...
A young treasure diving couple is sadistically murdered in the back country of the Florida Keys -- and Jesse McDermitt's friend is the prime suspect.The reclusive federal agent and former combat Marine launches his own investigation in the face of ov...
Charity Styles is a world class sharpshooter, martial arts expert, and government assassin... but after a stressful assignment, all she wants is a little time to unwind on the quiet side of St. Thomas, the picturesque Magens Bay. What does she get? A...
Miles from the laid-back lifestyle of No Name Key, and just shy of the raucous nightlife of Miami and South Beach, lies Coconut Grove, a tropical oasis with a distinct Bohemian flair. Lately, a seedy underside has emerged along the Grove’s waterfro...
In the backcountry of the Florida Keys, you can see and hear trouble coming for miles in any direction. That is, if you’re paying attention. Jesse McDermitt lives in the backcountry and very little happens near him that he’s not fully aware of. D...
When her position with the government is eliminated, Charity Styles is faced with an uncertain future. The only part of her previous life that she truly enjoyed was sailing her classic sloop. The cruising lifestyle is wonderful and helps keep her min...
Paradise has a price. For Jesse McDermitt, that price is his moral compass and a bullet.The retired Marine and charter skipper takes on a passenger in Nassau, a young woman who is a breath of fresh air. She introduces him to the laid-back cruising cr...
It’d been a long time; a lot of things had changed. Since sailing away from Cane Garden Bay, Jesse McDermitt had changed.Waking one morning, the smell of rum still on his breath, Jesse realizes he doesn’t much like the change anymore. The mask wh...
Charity Styles has been wandering the Pacific aimlessly aboard her beloved sloop, Wind Dancer, and only recently returned to the turquoise waters of the Caribbean. Entering a secluded cove in the Sea of Abaco, in the Bahamas, she runs into an old acq...
When a group of strangers purchase land on Tortola and Norman Island to set up a commune, the locals simply write them off as an odd sort -- until one of their bloated bodies washes up on the shore of a nearby resort island.As luck would have it, Jes...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Jesse McDermitt has rebuilt his island in the Content Keys far better than it was before the storm. The task was enormous, but so was his need to make things better.
Unbeknownst to Jesse, an environmentally ...
Paradise isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Few people know this as well as Jesse McDermitt, retired Marine and former government operative.In the aftermath of an intense mission in coastal Mexico, Jesse wants nothing more than to get back to h...
After returning home to the Florida Keys, Jesse moves on to Fort Myers, his hometown on the Southwest Florida coast. There is much work to be done and Jesse is no stranger to hard work.On a kayaking adventure with friends, Jesse's daughter finds and ...
On Grassy Key, things aren't as idyllic as they seem. The quiet, sleepy community has been awakened. A young woman with strong ties to the community is missing.A local craftsman, the last person to see the girl, is questioned and released. The girl's...
When a small homemade boat drifts under the Seven Mile Bridge, Jesse McDermitt doesn't hesitate to jump in and pull the boat ashore on Pigeon Key with an injured boy aboard. The boy provides more questions than answers. He's believed to be a Cuban re...
Where Jerry Snyder goes, trouble follows. Someone tried to kill him and his bride on their honeymoon in the Virgin Islands. And moving there permanently is proving to be anything but tranquil.First, he's working for the secretive Armstrong Organizati...
Jesse McDermitt is starting a new chapter in his life. As captain of the research vessel Ambrosia, his stated mission is to study the oceans and seafloor, searching for rich oil deposits. His unstated mission is to locate and eradicate the enemies of...
After a long hiatus, Charity Styles is itching to get back into the fray. She's had a succession of minor assignments, none of which provided her with the action she craves.After months of recharging and rethinking her position in the Armstrong organ...
Jesse McDermitt discovers an environmental nightmare of deception and greed taking place in Central America. A cartel is branching into smuggling things other than drugs. And they're doing it quite effectively.The Honduran rain forests and its inhabi...
Since the recent death of a wealthy, yet perverted, businessman, Charity Styles has been hiding in plain sight, as if challenging anyone to come after her.She's on her own once more, living day to day on her beloved Wind Dancer, anchored near a quain...
Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air.One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting t...
When an evil spirit murders a two-bit hustler preacher on French St. Martin, a conspiracy obsessed Vodou priest calls Jerry Snyder and DJ Martin to investigate.When they arrive, the hustler preacher is, indeed, dead, and his underage girlfriend kidna...
Charity Styles had been the catalyst for the demise of many. But in the past that usually meant the end of a human life. As an assassin for the CIA, it came with the territory.But this time she feels responsible for the end two of her friend's relati...
A lifelong friend finds something deep in the Everglades that is so very odd, that when he calls Jesse McDermitt, at first the semi-retired former special operator is in total disbelief. But he is also very intrigued, and the duo set out on another a...
Things in the Middle Florida Keys aren't as idyllic as they seem. If one looks closely, there's a layer of dirt just below the surface. The butt-ugly kind of dirt that's hard to get off.Things move slowly in the Keys—locals call it island time...