Martin Billings Stories by Ed Teja (#1-5)
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Overview: Ed Teja is a lifelong writer and denizen of the margins of the world. A former magazine editor and boat bum, his stories (mostly mysteries and thrillers) are about the people and places he knows — the odd corners of the world that often disappear into the margins, and the amazing, often strange, people that inhabit those places.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Under Low Skies
It’s not what he was trained for! Former Navy SEAL Martin Billings thought he was through with special ops, but when he gets word that his brother is in jail in Venezuela, charged with killing a fisherman he knows he is the only one who can do anything about it. Arriving he finds that the Venezuelan police, a mysterious and gorgeous woman lawyer, a vicious gringo called Highball, a seemingly affable drug lord, and a guy named Raul would all much rather Martin just turned around and went home. When trying to investigate the crime gets him implicated in another murder, Martin realizes that his SEAL training, and experience as a freighter captain, have uses, but limits. It’s a good thing Ugly Bill is on his way.
2. Death Benefits
Being a sea captain is a lot easier than doing business… Martin Billings heads to Venezuela to locate a friend’s business partner. The man has slipped off the radar and a lot of people want to find him. It’s easy enough to locate the man’s wife, vacationing on Margarita, but she knows nothing of the man’s whereabouts and cares even less. Several people do care where he is, however, including an ex British spy, named Simon, organized crime, and a mysterious foreign woman. None of it seems to have a thing to do with the reason he’s there, but Martin is caught in the middle—again. He needs to get some answers—preferably before Ugly Bill gets too tired of him playing detective.
3. In Harm’s Way
No good deed goes unpunished. When Martin Billings and Ugly Bill come across a yacht stuck hard on French Reef in the Caribbean, they lend a helping hand, rescuing Donna Devro, the young woman on board, and getting the boat safely into harbor. Now the authorities have found the boat’s owner dead in the cabin and Donna Devro has disappeared, leaving Martin and Bill to work out what sort of trouble she’s in (or up to), and find a way to keep from getting involved in whatever that trouble is. Fat chance. Martin Billings left behind a shining career as an officer in the SEALs for this mess? All he wanted was a chance to make an honest living hauling cargo among the Caribbean islands on his freighter IRREPARABLE HARM. Now, instead of hauling cargo, Martin and Bill are trawling for trouble, and Donna Devro isn’t eager to simplify their lives — nor is her husband.
4. A Viable Threat
They want to kill a Senator. Stopping it calls for running a hair-brained, off-the-books abduction, grabbing a Dutch national from a private island in The Bahamas. It doesn’t help that the senator whose life is in danger is Martin’s ex-wife, Polly. And then there is the minor detail that the intelligence for the mission, the idea of running it, was arranged by a US Navy Admiral who just happens to be Polly’s current husband. The presence of a hard-nosed (and very sexy) DEA agent with her own agenda, one who forced her way into the center of a mission she shouldn’t have even known about… well, it’s complicated. But hey, it’s all part of a normal day in the life of an ex-SEAL who only wants to be an average freighter captain in the Caribbean — at least Martin would like to think so.
5. Shanghaied in Trinidad
It starts with a call for help! While taking a much-need break in Panama, Martin Billings get a call from Fargo Rush, a man he’s known for years. He needs Martin to come to Trinidad. It’s an emergency. When people reach out, out of the blue, it always seems to be an emergency. This one, however, is tied deeply in Martin’s past and recent history. Rather than helping out a friend, Martin is embroiled in plots and counterplots, and a host of conflicting agendas. All of them mean trouble for him, and some of them involve international intrigue. He can’t seem to catch a break.
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