Mike Pettit

DUVAL DEAD Max Simms, Key West Mystery. Early reviews: "Laugh out loud funny." "Hardboiled Humor" "Mystery with a laugh" "Max Simms sets the bar high for a fun read." Right out of the Best Selling Jack Marsh Key West Series comes the bigger than life character, Max Simms, Jack's best friend (in his own mind). He's loveable, obnoxious, charming, cowardly, a braggart, con artist, snitch, and a weasel that will change his mind and loyalty if there's a buck in it. Max is a Key West cab driver that taking an On-Line P.I. course and is out to make a reputation as the best gumshoe on Duval Street. Duval dead is loaded with oddball characters, crooks, shysters, goons, and dames. Max is left holding a baby and a suitcase loaded with drugs and money at the Key West airport. A rolling gunfight, a kidnapped woman, and a stolen container of drugs tax Max's detecting skillset to the limits.

KEY WEST SLAM, a Jack Marsh Action Thriller BOLD EXPLOSIVE GRIT-LIT ACTION FROM THE FIRST PAGE Not since Papillion has there been such a brutal story of survival, determination, and revenge. Sure, to be a Best Selling Sensation with Action Thriller readers "Boss Dalton hung Jack by his feet with a quarter-inch cable and left him exposed to everything the Everglades had to offer in torment. With his hands tied behind his back, he had no defense against the buzzing and biting attacks on his naked body. The night was terrifying, filled with creepy crawling, stinging, biting insects and creatures of the swamp. The prisoner swinging next to him screamed insanely throughout the night, by daylight the man was silent with insanely vacant eyes that stared off into green haze. Jack's only thought was escape and the revenge he would meet out . . . if he survives." Framed for a murder he didn't commit, Jack is propelled into a system within a system of crime and punishment. Where the rule of law is left at the end of an asphalt road and torture begins. The trail leads into the wild Florida Everglades to the secret Camp 3, a camp where the hardest of criminals are sent and never return. Jack's unbelievable escape with another inmate through snake and alligator infested waters with disease bubbling up from the primordial mud with every step and armed men in pursuit. KEY WEST SLAM has Jack Marsh held in a prison camp deep in the Florida Everglades, a camp that is totally off the grid, where prisoners are sent and never leave. Brutal, torturous days working in waist-deep mangroves alive with snakes, insects, and alligators. Nights filled with cruel sadistic trustee guards where food is used as a weapon and weakness can cost a man his life. #9 in the Jack Marsh Key West Series.

Key West runs blood red as Jack Marsh is caught between a ruthless Cuban Drug Lord, known as El Condor, that has had ten million dollars stolen from him by someone in Key West, and an aging Mafia Don that knows who made the heist, and will kill to get it for himself. The heart pounding race through Old Town Key West, a storm tossed crossing of the Florida Strait to an isolated beach on the north shore of Cuba, then back out to a showdown in the deep waters around an old coral cay has Jack Marsh running against the clock as he tries to determine who is friend and who is foe ...and how to dump the money before he gets himself killed.The mystique of Key West, the beauty of the coral reefs and cays surrounding the area, the mysterious deep waters of the Florida Strait known as The Blue. The characters that make Key West the magnet of the Islands all come alive in an action suspense thriller that will leave you breathless.