Treasure Coast Deceit

by Paul McElroy

Sleepy Stuart, Florida provides the setting for Federal undercover agent Mack McCray to escape a mob hit in Chicago and seek refuge under the Federal Witness Protection program. He soon discovers that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971513600
• ISBN13: 9780971513600
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Treasure Coast Mysteries
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excitement Plus Humor

This book is a Mystery Thriller from cover to cover. It is also full of periods of humor that will not only bring a smile to your face, but also some good healthy laughter. For us Floridians and those tourist in the Florida area, it is even more interesting as it is in an area and setting we can all relate to.Once you start reading this book, you won't want to put it down. I find it very exciting and very believable. It is obvious the author did his homework and knows what he is talking about. Give it a try and I'll bet you will be waiting for Paul McElroy to write another book just as good as this one.

Treasure Coast Deciet a Treasure

Who lives under the Bridge?Florida sticks down into the ocean like a giant tongue. Like a tongue it sucks up the good and bad with no apparent differentiation as to good or bad. But it does take a piece of everything and everybody that trespasses on its sticky shores.Paul McElvoy brings his finely developed sense of reporting, developed as a syndicated outdoor writer into the volatile world of the "trolls", misfits, fishermen, drug runners, people smugglers, and, Florida Marine Patrol, to weave a tangled tale of deceit, subtrafuge, lies and disinformation that started in the tunnels of Viet Nam, continued through the jungles of Chicago and ended with the witness protection program in a sleepy town in Florida.For those of us who may be hiding the deeds and misdeeds of the 60's it may be time to get them out in the open. Certainly Rat, and Bear, did so. It cost one his life. Can I hear a chopper go over in the night and not feel empathy with the people under the bridge?Who are they? People who had trouble returning to, "the world".Were there insertions into hot zones? Was there an Operation Phoenix? What about SOG? Could this have anything to do with the smuggling of drugs and people into Eastern Florida, today?Perhaps author McElroy's background as an electronics rotorhead in 'Nam and his current employ as a charter captain may help explain the knowledge of the 75 mph boats sans lights off Stuart and the people under the bridge.If the reader is able to associate the tunnel rats and tiger cages of 'Nam, the witness protection program in Chicago and the move of the principle witness to Stuart with the association with a State's Attorney whose pants seem hotter than her red hair and screaming Beamer tires this is the book for you.Perhaps the question should be: Why is it someone else under the bridge and not me? I don't know but this book will get you wondering.I guess in the final analysis my liking the book boiled down to two things: I could put a name to everyone, and, there but for the grace of God go I.

Captivating, you won't want to put it down!!!

If you live in Florida, or not, you will want to go to these places to see if you can find these people and places. Once you start reading, you will not want to put this book down. The author has the reader wondering, is this all true? And if so, watch out, and if not, oh, the imagination! I have recommended this book to all of my frinds, and family. Great book.