After the Search: A Jack Calder PI File

By Oscar B Santa Maria

The search ended. Jack Calder kept looking.

Jack Calder came to the Florida Keys to disappear. Widowed and retired after twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he lives aboard the trawler Second Wind with Princeton, a golden retriever who trusts Jack's instincts as much as Jack trusts his.

When fourteen-year-old Lucas Hart and Mateo Cruz vanish during a violent storm, the Coast Guard searches thousands of square miles before suspending the operation. Their capsized Boston Whaler is recovered, but no bodies are found.

Then Lucas's mother brings Jack a grainy marina image recorded after the official search ended. One pale flash at a boy's wrist suggests the impossible: at least one of them may still be alive.

Following that clue draws Jack into a hidden network of private islands, aircraft, and maritime smuggling-and toward a man who built his life on keeping witnesses silent.

To bring both boys home, Jack must risk the quiet life he came to the Keys to find.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJWMGJWD
• ISBN13: 9798172815508
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"