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Bahamas #2
Calling Down the Lightning
Harry Beck is rebuilding his life after the devastating scandal that rocked the Bahamas the previous year.
He has come through it with his reputation intact, but with some major changes.
Harry has teamed up with trusted crew member Stevie Bailey to restart the charter business, with Stevie as junior partner in Beck and Bailey Charters.
He has married Katy and inherited the vessel, the Sallyanna. For a while, the barometer is set fair.
The only storm on the horizon is the unannounced arrival on the island of Stevie’s girlfriend, FBI Special Agent Billie Jean Martinez. Billie arrives with a hired assassin in her wake, contracted by crime boss Patrick Rafferty to kill her before she can open her mouth and ruin the Irishman’s political ambitions.
A hit is attempted and thwarted by Harry, but the assassin refuses to leave the island, determined to complete the contract.
From then on, it’s a challenge for Harry to keep Billie alive, using all of his skills as a sailor and navigator to stay one step ahead of the killer.
He has come through it with his reputation intact, but with some major changes.
Harry has teamed up with trusted crew member Stevie Bailey to restart the charter business, with Stevie as junior partner in Beck and Bailey Charters.
He has married Katy and inherited the vessel, the Sallyanna. For a while, the barometer is set fair.
The only storm on the horizon is the unannounced arrival on the island of Stevie’s girlfriend, FBI Special Agent Billie Jean Martinez. Billie arrives with a hired assassin in her wake, contracted by crime boss Patrick Rafferty to kill her before she can open her mouth and ruin the Irishman’s political ambitions.
A hit is attempted and thwarted by Harry, but the assassin refuses to leave the island, determined to complete the contract.
From then on, it’s a challenge for Harry to keep Billie alive, using all of his skills as a sailor and navigator to stay one step ahead of the killer.
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Maynard Sims
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The DCI Jack Callum series of crime novels - No Evil,Prime Evil and For Her Sins with The Detective Jack Callum Trilogy. The Bahamas series of thriller novels - Touching The Sun, Calling Down The Lightning, and Raging Against The Storm. The Department 18 series of supernatural crime novels - Black Cathedral, Night Souls, The Eighth Witch, A Plague Of Echoes, and Mother Of Demons. The crime novels Let Death Begin, Through The Sad Heart, and Falling Apart At The Edges. The supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, Stronghold, and Stillwater. The erotic romance novels, under a pseudonym, - The Love Project and The Romance Project.
One screenplay, based on the first two Department 18 books, won the 2013 British Horror Film Festival Award for Best New Screenplay.
Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines. Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling Into Heaven 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales, and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012. Their tenth collection of ghost stories and strange tales – Death’s Sweet Echo – which includes all their recent and new stories, many of them previously unpublished, is 2016.
Novellas, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, His Other Son, and Convalescence have been published in 2002, 2003, 2013 and 2015 respectively. All their stories and novellas have been reprinted in eight uniform volumes through The Maynard Sims Library in 2014. An erotic romance novella, First Time Love, 2015 and First Time Arousal, 2016. Devil is a 2016 crime novella..
They worked as editors on the nine volumes of Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They have written essays. They still do commissioned editing projects, most recently Dead Water, and the Capital Crimes anthology for the ITW. They do ghost writing commissions.
Email contact can be made at [email protected]
Find Maynard Sims on most social media - links are on the website
The DCI Jack Callum series of crime novels - No Evil,Prime Evil and For Her Sins with The Detective Jack Callum Trilogy. The Bahamas series of thriller novels - Touching The Sun, Calling Down The Lightning, and Raging Against The Storm. The Department 18 series of supernatural crime novels - Black Cathedral, Night Souls, The Eighth Witch, A Plague Of Echoes, and Mother Of Demons. The crime novels Let Death Begin, Through The Sad Heart, and Falling Apart At The Edges. The supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, Stronghold, and Stillwater. The erotic romance novels, under a pseudonym, - The Love Project and The Romance Project.
One screenplay, based on the first two Department 18 books, won the 2013 British Horror Film Festival Award for Best New Screenplay.
Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines. Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling Into Heaven 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales, and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012. Their tenth collection of ghost stories and strange tales – Death’s Sweet Echo – which includes all their recent and new stories, many of them previously unpublished, is 2016.
Novellas, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, His Other Son, and Convalescence have been published in 2002, 2003, 2013 and 2015 respectively. All their stories and novellas have been reprinted in eight uniform volumes through The Maynard Sims Library in 2014. An erotic romance novella, First Time Love, 2015 and First Time Arousal, 2016. Devil is a 2016 crime novella..
They worked as editors on the nine volumes of Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They have written essays. They still do commissioned editing projects, most recently Dead Water, and the Capital Crimes anthology for the ITW. They do ghost writing commissions.
Email contact can be made at [email protected]
Find Maynard Sims on most social media - links are on the website
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March 18, 2025
This book was given to me as it was written by someone she knew.
Pleasant enough read, quite enjoyable.
Not much to say about it though.
Pleasant enough read, quite enjoyable.
Not much to say about it though.
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