Shadow Sideways — James Derry

SHADOW SIDEWAYS reads like Carl Hiassen meets Robert Ludlum meets H.G. Wells. It's a near-future science fiction thriller--a novelette that is a quick, witty beach read.

Sly Severance is a retired spy--a man with extraordinary 'enhancements' who served with the United States' most cutting-edge and clandestine special forces team.

Now he lives on a Mexican beach with an adopted family of similarly enhanced retirees. Together they have created the world's weirdest--and most reclusive--nudist colony. They used to be thieves, mercenaries, and assassins, and now they will go to great lengths to maintain the safety and the secrecy of their beach.

"We don't like strangers. We don't like prying eyes."
"I've pried eyes before. I didn't mind it."

When a CIA officer ambles onto the colony's beach, Sly is forced to return to his old way of life. To protect his home, he will lie, steal, fight, and draw blood. And he will find himself in a very dark place, a vantage point where the differences between right and wrong can be as hard to see as a SHADOW SIDEWAYS.