Dead Calm

A Mystery-Suspense Thriller

By: David Lee Corley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

THE STORM IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.

Wildlife Officer Mac Tanner knows the Everglades backcountry better than his own name. He’s walked every marl corridor and navigated every peat zone in the sector. So when a Category 3 hurricane begins its slow, violent crawl toward the Florida coast, Mac doesn't evacuate. He stays behind to ensure a stubborn old Cajun friend survives the night.

But as the eyewall passes, Mac discovers something the storm was meant to hide: a floatplane corridor freshly cut into the sawgrass. In the eerie stillness of the eye, five men in tactical gear emerge from the darkness, executing their pilot and scuttling their aircraft. These aren't drug runners looking for an offload—they are a professional hit team moving with military precision toward a target that shouldn't exist this deep in the swamp.

Armed only with a sidearm and his intimate knowledge of the terrain, Mac must track the team through the lethal second half of the hurricane. In the deafening roar of the back wall, the swamp itself becomes a weapon of indifference, swallowing those who don't understand its geometry.

One man knows the secrets of the marl. Five men have the firepower to destroy them. As the pressure drops and the surge rises, Mac Tanner is the only thing standing between an elite unit and a catastrophe that will follow the hurricane’s path straight into the lives of four million people.