The Braswell family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. But their eldest son, the family's shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. And when he disappeared - hauled into the depths by the giant marlin he had been fighting - he took with him a secret so corrupt that it could destroy the Braswells.

Ten years later, a huge airliner crashes in the steamy shallows off the Florida coast, killing all aboard. Helping pull bodies from the water, Thorn finds himself drawn into a bizarre conspiracy: someone has developed a high tech weapon capable of destroying electrical systems in a powerful flash. The terrorist potential is huge. How are the secretive Braswells and their family-owned company, MicroDyne, involved? And what does it have to do with the family's obsessive hunt for the great marlin that killed their golden boy?

With the Braswells, James W. Hall introduces one of the most evil and dysfunctional families in the history of fiction. And, along with Thorn, he brings back favorite characters from his earlier books, including Alexandra Rafferty and her father, Lawton Collins, a retired and increasingly dotty former police investigator whose methods of investigation result in his kidnapping. A story that bristles with all the heat and tension of a tropical Florida summer, BLACKWATER SOUND is destined to rank among the greatest suspense thrillers of the new decade.

Dick Hill turns in another first-rate performance as he plays Thorn, whom trouble finds wherever he goes. This time Thorn happens upon the scene of a horrendous plane disaster and helps to save numerous crash victims. Is this event somehow connected to a bizarre drowning death 10 years earlier? As Thorn searches for the answer and a doomsday device, Hill has ample opportunity to demonstrate his acting skills. He is equally adept as a character befuddled by Alzheimer's or as a demented knife-wielding killer. He is especially realistic as he somberly describes the aftermath of the terrible crash. As he addresses the exciting conclusion, Hill again leaves the listener sated. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

 

James W. Hall travels between his homes in south Florida and North Carolina. For the last 29 years, he has taught literature and creative writing at Florida International University, where his students have included Dennis Lehane, Barbara Parker, and Vicki Hendricks. After publishing four books of poetry and several works of short fiction in such magazines as the Georgia Review and Kenyon Review, Hall began writing crime novels in 1986 with Under Cover of Daylight.

Blackwater Sound by James W. Hall
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