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Black Water Transit is a shipping company owned and run by Jack Vermillion. When his son calls from a California prison, saying that his life is in danger if he doesn't get out of general population, Jack decides to run a sting operation. Jack is approached by Earl Pike, a former soldier, and now head of a security company run by old soldiers and former vets of all wars. This company does the odd jobs for the government in the dirty countries. Pike wants Jack to ship arms, supposedly a family heritage, to a Mexican general, in an illegal way. At this point, Jack goes to ATF to see if there is a way to get the arms shipment stopped, get his son out of general population in prison, and keep his business afloat. This is where things get hairy. Pike is also suspected of killing two young adults in upstate New York with his bare hands. Using his connections, Pike tricks the police into believing he is innocent, all except for Casey Spandau, a black, female cop, who is assigned this job after assaulting an assistant D.A. for letting a child molester, kidnapper go free; and Nicky Cicero, who is the lead investigator for the upstate police in the two murders. This book contains brutal scenes of violence, both legal and illegal. There is a shootout at Red Hook Terminal that makes some serial killers look like choir boys, and then there is the scene in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, where Jack, being threatened by the local hoods uses his old army skills to outwit and kill them, and all the while feeling like he is really killing his son for all this trouble. The characterization is great. The scenes, the narrative, and the plot drive this book to a scene at the end where some loose ends come together, though, I felt the last few pages could have been left off, as they really just took away from a great book to make a fairly good book. I recommend this book for people who like to see justice done, maybe not in a legal sense, but done to the right perpetrators, while the victims end up doing things that they are forced to do. Rate this one a B+. 7/30/2002
Reviewed by Steven M. Sill, November 2002
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