BLUE WATER HUNTER

By: Brandon Fredrick

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

John Hoon-nah Hetaw Becker was born between worlds—the son of a Montana rancher and a Shoshone-Arapaho mother on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation, then raised for a time in Iwakuni, Japan by a stepmother who was never truly his own. By the time he was eight, he’d already learned the hardest lesson: he belonged nowhere.

A former Marine and soldier of fortune, Becker now lives in self-imposed exile on the island of Saipan, making just enough to survive by spearfishing the deep waters of the western Pacific.

But the past never stays buried.

When the widow of his closest friend vanishes in Mexico, Becker discovers she’d risked everything to rescue her late husband’s niece—kidnapped and held by narco-traffickers in Sinaloa. Seeking redemption he isn’t sure he deserves, Becker heads straight into cartel territory.

There, in a small pueblo strangled by corruption, violence, and a sadistic killer no one dares name, he allies with an idealistic young police chief and her seventy-two-year-old deputy. Outnumbered and outgunned, they make a last stand against the chaos—knowing full well that justice may not survive the night.

A great story

Even the bad guys are three dimensional. The main characters are my favorite. I subtracted a star for the AI narration in use these days.