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Bait by J. Kent Messum

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Bait, September 2013
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BAIT
By: J. Kent Messum

Plume
September 2013
On Sale: August 27, 2013
288 pages
ISBN: 0142180254
EAN: 9780142180259
Kindle: B00C5R7FR2
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Six strangers wake up on a remote island in the Florida Keys with no memory of their arrival. They soon discover their common bond: all of them are heroin addicts. As the first excruciating pangs of withdrawal make themselves felt, the six notice a yacht anchored across open water. On it lurk four shadowy figures, protected by the hungry sharks that patrol the waves. So begins a dangerous game. The six must undertake the impossibleβ€”swim to the next island where a cache of heroin awaits, or die trying. When alliances form, betrayal is inevitable. As the fight to survive intensifies, the stakes reach terrifying heightsβ€”and their captors’ motives finally begin to emerge.