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    Gone On Kauai

    By Bruce W. Perry

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    Gone On Kauai is the second crime novel in the Karl Standt series.

    Amanda Wilcox is a beautiful young GMO activist who disappears paddleboarding on Kauai. Her plight becomes fodder for the tabloid media, especially in Manhattan where her father is a prominent lawyer.

    A famous actress pledges to spare nothing to help find Amanda. But it falls to the retired NYPD detective and private investigator Karl Standt to go to the Hawaiian island and fix a botched, seamy investigation that has gone nowhere. The detective finds a web of murky connections in the tropical paradise, hints of corruption that exposes the island's drug- and agro-financed underside.

    Joining Standt on Kauai is Katie Hudson, a girlfriend and reporter for Slate magazine. The hacker Church leaves his own girlfriend "iz" back home on the lower east side to help Standt break the case. Yes, everyone is looking for Amanda. That includes "Chris K," a surfing, pot-loving local investigator, as well as Vereen, a gonzo helicopter-tour pilot who used to fly missions in Iraq.

    Vereen takes them into "Cambodia," the tangled, torpid island interior, where drug entrepreneurs thrive.

    A burned-out ex-cop named Bruno Reilly is also looking for Amanda, or is he? He has a suspicious relationship with a pampered crew of GMO execs partying on a yacht off-shore. They don't mind that Amanda has disappeared. Her anti-GMO crusade is bad for business.

    Is she dead, a shark fatality, or still alive, somewhere, on or off the ocean? Church hacks into phone, web, and bank records, unearthing several intriguing threads. Church and iz have their own problems with Ecstasy. The drug scene hangs over everything like a pall. The hacker, Katie, and Standt are immersed in an atmosphere of "equatorial noir" as they try to find out what happened to an All American girl.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce W. Perry
    Release dateDec 10, 2013
    ISBN9780988902053
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    Bruce W. Perry

    Bruce W. Perry is an independent software developer and writer, and the author of O'Reilly's Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook and Ajax Hacks. Since 1996, he has developed web applications and databases for various nonprofits, design and marketing firms, as well as publishers. In his spare time, Perry is an active age-group triathlete and has cycled extensively in the Swiss Alps. He splits his time between Warren, Vermont and the Newburyport, Massachusetts area with his wife Stacy LeBaron, daughter Rachel, and son Scott.

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