Lethal Wind

Bob McElwain
Foremost Press (2005)
ISBN 0974892130
Reviewed by Rebecka Vigus for Reader Views (3/06)

Scott Macklen goes for a day cruise with friends to christen a new boat, when they discover a floating raft. The raft contains a shipment of coke. They attach the raft to their boat and contact the Coast Guard. That’s when the excitement begins.

Macklen’s friends the Dentons and their children are massacred in their own home. Then the Larsons, also on the boat that day, are killed in the same way. At the funeral for the Dentons the Song Birds (a group of Jamaicans who call themselves a Posse) arrive with their MAC-10s and start shooting. This time it’s Macklen’s friend, Tony Haggen, who is shot.

While Tony is recovering, Macklen takes on Harry Boggs the drug lord whose coke they recovered. With the assistance of Hap Skyler, a cop friend of Tony’s, Wendy Katlan of Katlan Air, and his fellow veteran, Lencho, Macklen wages all out war.

He hopes to wage his war without taking lives. A former special forces operative in the Viet Nam War, he takes his training and puts it to work to take down Boggs. First he goes after his ships, hoping the cost of repairs will cause Boggs to act stupidly. When that doesn’t work, he goes after his fleet of planes. Meanwhile, Boggs has put a price on Macklen’s head, one hundred thousand dollars dead or alive. Macklen is forced to use alternate identities, hoping Boggs thinks the Columbians are trying to take over.

If this book does not get your adrenalin pumping, I don’t know what will. It is well written and face paced. The action only takes temporary breaks. Does good win over evil in this tale? You will want to read it to find out.

Bob McElwain introduces the action in the first couple of pages and keeps it going until the very end. He even keeps a surprise or two for the end. “Lethal Wind” is a good read for anyone looking for action and adventure.

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