“THE TOUGHEST, FASTEST MOVING SUSPENSE YARN OF THE YEAR.” —Long Beach (CA) Independent
Dolan met her in a waterfront bar on Conch Key, where he’d stopped to gas up the Jessie. Her name was Sheila, a long-stemmed, red-blooded American beauty sitting on $50,000 worth of illegal arms and ammunition destined for Cuba’s revolutionaries.
All she needed was somebody with a boat and the nerve to put the stuff ashore by night—and Dolan seemed to fit the part. It wasn’t until he got hijacked that he began wondering which side of the street she was really working.
“Brad Dolan, the soldier of fortune with a talent for idleness and women and who could slug it out toe-to-toe any day with Mickey Spillane's tough guy Mike Hammer, undertakes to smuggle a load of contraband arms to Cuba aboard his ship, The Jessie. Dolan sails into big trouble with both factions of the revolution, plus a hoodlum named Lou Acosta and a honey-haired blonde with Gulfstream blue eyes called Sheila.” —Long Beach (CA) Independent
