New from Hal Alpiar –

                                                             

          A story that works!

                                               

From page one in the middle

                                          

of Jersey Shore swampland,

                                    

in the middle of the night,

                                              

searching for a mud-sucked

                          

corpse in a winter storm…

                          

to a grand-slam ending

                                      

readers will never guess:

                                                                                                      

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H~I~G~H    T~I~D~E

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A nine-sentence synopsis of a 72,000-word work of fiction based on true events

 

 Sabotage At Sea

                                                                   

Record Quarter Billion Dollar

                                       

Drug Bust Sinks NJ Boat

                                  

in Stormy Transfer

                                                   

Drownings. Murders. $12.5 Million, Crewmen Missing.  

40,000 Hash “Balls” 

surf onto boardwalk beaches at high tide 

                                                                                                                         

Heartbeats away from the biggest drug deal in US history, the 56-foot Solamente mob-family trawler Maltese is bouncing like a toy, tethered to Colombian freighter Hombre in rough seas fifteen miles off the Jersey Shore. 

A fierce nor’easter threatens delivery. Under the not-so-watchful eyes of two drunken captains, twenty tons of hashish are being unloaded from the Hombre when the trawler’s tonnage capacity is mistakenly exceeded, and the Maltese suddenly sinks. 

In the chaos, wind and rain, panicked crewmen are saved by a third, safety backup, escort boat that their boss’s henchmen blackmailed away from Seaport College Professor-of-the-Year Rick Maddigan and his live-aboard student girlfriend JP.

As the Maltese sinks, the Hombre turns and runs. . . murders, drownings, and arrests in her wake. 40,000 “hashballs” burst through soggy cartons headed for boardwalk beaches. Scavenging hippies scamper the shoreline in frenzied pursuit.

Maddigan and JP coerce DEA agents to abandon drug charges that triggered the blackmail, and retrieve their boat. Having stirred up gangster politics in the process of master-minding the blundering sabotage at sea, the couple end up being held at gunpoint at the mob boss’s estate. Tempers flair, and turncoat heroics spare them in a last-minute assault and bullet barrage.

Millions of dollars are recovered, but $12.5 million vanishes – along with crewmen suspected as the source of startling worldwide cash deliveries. #

                                                                                                                            

Hal has authored hundreds of published articles and poems in a wide range of magazines, blogs, websites, newsletters, newspapers, and books.

                                                          

His full-length books include DOCTOR BUSINESS (nonfiction hard cover for physicians; PMIC, Los Angeles; Amazon 5-Star Selection), DOCTOR SHOPPING (nonfiction paperback for healthcare consumers; HIP imprint of PMIC, Los Angeles; winner - National Health Information Book Award).

                                                                    

Also seeking agent or children’s publishing editor representation:  DOODLE-OO The Bare-Headed Bear (unpublished anchor story in a children’s self-esteem verse series, successfully tested with 400 children in three states).           

                                                                                                                   

Hal’s latest short story, “The Dirt Floor Visit” is featured in a 2010 Nightengale Press collection entitled, The Art of Grandparenting. 

                                                                 

He has just completed writing (and is editing printer’s proofs for) a 300-page, hard cover, commissioned memoir (entitled GOOD LUCK!) for a prominent public citizen and government watchdog activist with close personal ties to top U.S. federal and state leaders nationwide.

                                                                        

 More of Hal at www.TWWsells.com and  www.TheWriterWorks.com