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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "Castigo Cay" by Matthew Bracken
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"Castigo Cay" by Matthew Bracken
    https://www.amazon.com/Castigo-Cay-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831045/

Book number one of a three book post financial apocalypse thriller 
series.  I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback 
published by Steelcutter Publishing in 2011 that I bought new on Amazon 
in 2015.  I have ordered books two and three in the series.

In the not so distant future, the USA Dollar has lost most of its value 
and annual inflation is running 20% per year.  Gasoline is $60 per 
gallon and rationed at 10 gallons per week, so is electricity.  Food and 
housing are comparatively expensive.  The taxes have gone up including 
new personal healthcare taxes and such.  Many people have left the USA 
looking for cheaper places to live.

Dan Kilmer is a former US Marine with a failed shot at college.  He 
joined his uncle restoring an old 60 foot long (20 meter) twin masted 
steel schooner down in Florida.  As they got close to the end of the 
immense project, his uncle fell off a ladder and subsequently passed 
away.  Dan inherited the "Rebel Yell" from his uncle and finished the 
project, launching the ship and moved to the Bahamas.  He makes money by 
running small cargoes and helping salvage operations.

Dan Kilmer's Venezuelan girlfriend needs to go to Miami.  Dan can't take 
her since he owes the IRS money.  So she jumps ship to a ship supposedly 
heading for Miami, but is the ship really headed to Miami?

My rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars (1,383 reviews)

Lynn