The Boss of Hampton Beach: 1st Dan Marlowe Novel

 

AVAILABLE IN PRINT AND E-BOOK

THE BOSS of HAMPTON BEACH

A Novel of Drugs, Murder and Redemption

Cocaine.  It’s already cost Dan Marlowe his family and his business, The High Tide Restaurant & Saloon.  Dan’s doing his best to stay away from the stuff.  Now a bartender at the Tide, Dan’s life is slowly stabilizing.  That is until a boat with two dead bodies on board is found wrecked on the jetty at Hampton Beach.  The hunt for its missing cargo, 200 pounds of cocaine, is on.  Dan is forced into the search and realizes that the drug that stole everything short of his life might be the one thing that can get it all back.And Dan’s not the only one seeking the fortune in white powder.  Others, on both sides of the law, are after it too, including a Boston mob boss and his right-hand man; a New Hampshire seacoast drug dealer/informer, his smokin’ hot girlfriend, and his dim-witted muscle; a crooked D.E.A. agent and his junkie sidekick; two New Hampshire State police detectives; and an Irish handyman with a secret.  It’s a violent, backstabbing race to the end of the rainbow.  May the best man win.

The real Dan Marlowe was the author’s father’s best friend.  Mr. Marlowe wrote his crime masterpiece, “The Name of the Game is Death,” while living with the Power family in Woburn, MA.  He named a character after Jed Power.  Mr. Power has returned the honor by naming his protagonist Dan Marlowe.

The Boss of Hampton Beach is available in Trade Paper and e-versions from Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, and all other outlets.

What they’re saying about The Boss of Hampton BeachReview: “Criminal Inspiration,” review by Abby Spegman, Wicked Local Woburn, Nov. 8, 2012.