Rescue mission turns deadly
When Dan Marlowe pays a visit to the run-down Honeymoon Hotel, he thinks he’s just doing a favor for a friend—rescuing the friend’s granddaughter from the clutches of a low-life junkie. He doesn’t plan on the rescue turning into something ugly.
Then the ugly turns uglier and local businesses find themselves prey to racial threats and thugs.
Determined to find out who’s behind the movement to drive local business owners off the beach, Dan embarks on a hunt that leads him down a trail riddled with arson and violence. Just as he’s closing in on the truth a sinister figure appears, threatening his friends, his family, and ultimately, all of Hampton Beach.
But who’s behind it all? A tough-guy beach hotel owner? A big-time Boston lawyer? A South Boston gang leader? Greedy politicians? And how do two local dim-witted drug dealers and a strip club fit in?
The more Dan investigates, the more he finds at stake, and every way he turns, he ends up back at the same dark, dangerous place—the Honeymoon Hotel.
Honeymoon Hotel is available in Trade Paper and e-versions from Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, and all other outlets.
What they’re saying about Blood On Hampton Beach
“Author Jed Power has the…touch…it doesn’t get much better…” Charlie Stella, Author of Rough Riders and Shakedown
“The ghosts of hard-boiled legends such as John D. MacDonald …and–yes–Dan J. Marlowe himself haunt these pages. Pure pulp pleasure.” Wallace Stroby, Author of Shoot the Woman First and Kings of Midnight
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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.
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.