Sharpshooters make shooting look easy, but that skill comes with years of practice and practice is needed to keep it up. So even on his R and R to fully recover from his harrowing experiences in New York City, Navy SEAL Jordan Gulok heads for a shooting salon before a night on the town.

Impressed with his incredible skill, the co-owners of the shooting gallery Tito Garza and Bartolomeo ponder whether they can trust him or not for their own clandestine purposes, but needing a shooting instructor, they offer him a part-time job. Meanwhile, Jordan senses his own reasons not to trust them, but takes the job just to find own what might be going on.

Many people are fooled as to who Jordan really is. Often mistaken for an oriental person, he seldom tells them differently if that suits his purposes. As an Inuk, Jordan was born in the high northern Arctic tundra of Canada and very few in Miami are familiar with Inuit or with their related people, the Eskimos in Alaska, where Jordan later when to university. Far fewer get told or find out that he does independent covert operations and reports directly to Admiral Benjamin. If checked or anything happens to him, they would get total denial.

From his Inuit roots, Jordan has been taught to pay attention to his instincts and to trust them. The wisdom of his elders had been breathed into his bones and the instincts that twig to little anomalies. In the Arctic, small changes can cause big problems and the difference between life or imminent death. So, the little discrepancy between the street number of the shooting salon and the number on the door mat caught Jordan's attention and especially when he sees it later written in graffiti on some walls. Just what is 417 all about?

After being directed by his Haitian taxi driver to a nightclub in Lemon City (La Petite Haiti), Jordan is entranced by the silvery voice of the elegant singer Claudette Basile. Then, at the club, the down and out alcoholic ex-pat Brit Neville Moorhead recognizes him and scrounges off him, but Jordan is glad to get some info from him even as he knows Neville is just scamming the tourists. Later, when Neville is murdered, Jordan realizes something big is happening. But what is it and what does it have to do with 417? If that isn't enough, when he does call in with the intel, he can't even get any equipment or support due to the budget cuts. He had been cut off from support before, but not like this? Can he really take on what might be going on?

Well known and bestselling author Stefan Kanfer has batted the ball right out of the ballpark and created a real winner with THE ESKIMO HUNTS IN MIAMI! I really enjoyed Kanfer's debut first book, THE ESKIMO HUNTS IN NEW YORK, but even that didn't prepare me for how spellbinding this second book in the series would be! I got totally caught up in this latest one and just could not put it down until I had finished it!

Jordan Gulok is a very appealing and engaging protagonist as well as having the most unique background I have encountered in this genre. Like a small ice floe in a big ocean, Gulok is cut off from his own people, except for whispers of stories in his mind, as well as from his adopted navy SEAL family. Yet, despite his fears, he is courageous and is both resilient and resourceful as he takes on those who cause trouble for his adapted country. In this adventure, Gulok is pulled into the Haitian and Cuban communities and subcultures and whose peoples now live on the streets named long ago for the Jewish people who once were the prime inhabitants of Miami in the past. As Kanfer writes from the viewpoint and feelings of his characters, they all come instantly alive in a very real way. The reader can easily visualize the differing worlds of the lovely and strong Claudette Basile, her friends Célèbre, the nightclub owner, and Hector, the resourceful Haitian librarian as well as that of Washington Congressman Miles Ewen and the others involved.

Kanfer is a very well experienced writer with years of research skills and he brings a depth of information and credibility to THE ESKIMO HUNTS IN MIAMI that his fans, new and existing, will relish in this exciting and explosive adventure involving Haitian and Cuban émigrés in Miami! I sure hope that Kanfer is planning many more books in this series as I just can't wait to see where this "team of one" SEAL ends up next! This is one sizzling hot story you don't want to miss! Enjoy!!