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Pirata, July 2018
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Harper Perennial
July 2018
On Sale: June 26, 2018
352 pages
ISBN: 0062742779
EAN: 9780062742773
Kindle: B073B1L8KG
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Thriller Crime
From 21-Jump Street writer and series creator
Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, part family novel about
an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family
he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don
Winslow's The Dawn Patrol
"Going
straight at the stuff that scares you is good advice. I just
didn't have the courage to do it…"—Nick
Lutz
In a former life, Nick Lutz, sold cars in the
Golden State. He had a wife and a young son, Marshall, and
they struggled along until Nick was shot in the head when a
potential customer hijacked the car he was demonstrating.
The incident sets off a bad-luck domino fall, and he loses
an eye, his job, his family, and, eventually, his
self-respect.
With nothing left, he heads for Mexico,
where he sheds his former self among an eclectic group of
expats and locals, who fondly name him "Pirata" on account
of his eye patch. There on the beaches of Sabinita, Nick and
his new buddy Winsor drink, surf, and—most of all—they
escape, buoyed away from their pasts on a life of south
swells and Tecate. Nothing epic. That is until Winsor's
girlfriend, Meagan, puts the claws of a hammer into her
lover's skull.
The thing is, Winsor had it coming.
And thanks to Nick's soft spot for Meagan and her two sons,
he agrees to help her out—after all, ninety percent of
Mexican crimes go unsolved. They dump the body, Meagan and
the boys move in with Nick, and a monsoon season fling turns
into a torrid love affair as they weave their secrets and
loyalties into something like a family. But when an FBI
agent turns up looking for Nick and the local
policía find a body washed up in the surf, he
realizes his past—and his sins—have caught up to him. And
there are dangerous new surprises that have yet to roll in
with the tide….
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