The Ripple Effect Murders
By Don Beverly
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"Inevitable!"
Looking back weeks later, it was the single word which special agent Jake McCall had come to use in describing the series of murders which the seamy side of the Key West lifestyle was suddenly producing. The sexually liberal "anything goes" philosophy of the Keys had become the comfortable venue for a killer who obviously felt camouflaged in the gay-lesbian community where bizarre behavior was not the exception, but the norm. A community which, sooner or later, would foreseeably become the haven for a sexual predator turned killer.
But McCall had come to the Florida Keys to fish.
Following an intense and dangerous battle with a Mexican cartel drug lord, McCall had hoped to escape his FBI duties with a few days of bonefishing in the Keys. When a small unmanned boat drifted across his favorite fishing spot in Madeira Bay, Jake towed it in and alerted the Marine Patrol to locate the owner, never dreaming a load of cocaine was hidden below its deck.
Now involuntarily involved with the DEA in a search for the boat's owner, Jake is enlisted to lead a team back into the hidden recesses of Madeira Bay where they discover dismembered body parts, obviously belonging to the drug boat driver and exhibiting the grisly trademark of a killer who earlier had left the remains of two young party girls near the Key West airport.
The killer's weapon of choice, an expensive custom-made fisherman's knife, has been used to dissect victims with surgical precision, purposefully leaving the bodies easily discoverable as if to showcase the handiwork.
Complicating the investigation is an interwoven drug smuggling scheme, apparently the brainchild of the bisexual killer and ultimately involving Jake in a cross-country manhunt which ends in Las Vegas where the Gay Pride Extravaganza is again used by the killer as the backdrop for more killing and the eventual kidnapping of a beautiful female FBI agent.
Don Beverly
Don Beverly grew up on the shores of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach County, Florida, graduated from Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida Law School, beginning his career in Miami as a trial lawyer. He ultimately moved to West Palm Beach where he practices today, according to him, "as little as possible", while he pursues his lifelong love of writing, particularly about his own life experiences, which are numerous. Beverly, known to his beloved wife, Molly, and his many friends simply as "DB", has achieved national prominence as a lawyer, has over five thousand hours as a pilot, has won a multitude of state and national cutting horse championships, enjoys skiing when at his home in Fairplay, Colorado, and operating his high-performance airboat in the Florida Everglades. During this multi-faceted career Beverly has written many articles about his interests as well as academic subjects, including successive editions of his legal treatise, Florida Trial Evidence. He has also served as a Director on the Boards of Chris Craft, Inc., the National Cutting Horse Association, Kirkwood Ski Resort, Inc., the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the trial section of The Florida Bar, and as frequent Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of The Florida Bar. Beverly was named South Florida's "Best Lawyer'' in the January, 1992, issue of Palm Beach Life.In his Jake McCall Adventure Series, Don Beverly calls upon his vast personal reservoir of knowledge and experience to take a shot at the bureaucratic shenanigans which have irreparably wounded his beloved Everglades while weaving incredibly well-researched but exciting tales populated by colorful and credible characters against the backdrop of an astounding wetlands geography and environment seldom seen by humans. Beverly’s books easily earn the description "page turner", but at the same time, not always so subtly, communicate messages of national consciousness not to be disregarded.
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