The Blind Pool

A Russian crime ring scores entry to the USA by forging an alliance with a criminal gang that uses a West Texas private prison as their base. Felons are secretly released from that prison and sent out across the nation to work as hard-case enforcers. An assault on a bridge in the Florida Keys tips off authorities to the alliance’s grand plot to subvert, exploit, and terrorize the American public. But agents who start to investigate are betrayed by a high-placed FBI mole. Stakes rise to life-or-death when the agents and their women are kidnapped by the cabal. To achieve escape, wreak vengeance and exact justice stretches the tradecraft and loyalties of these U.S. operators close to a breaking point – and beyond.

Author Biography

Born in the Florida Everglades amid a Category 4 hurricane, Paul McHugh has remained an outdoorsman and professional writer for his entire life. “Deadlines,” McHugh’s first crime novel, won a best mystery prize from the National Indie Excellence Awards, and another from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. His newest thriller, “The Blind Pool,” draws from years as an investigative journalist and outdoor sports editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as his international travels. McHugh has reported on U.S. Navy SEALs, corporate malfeasance and high-risk adventure. He is a hunter, a surfer, a trail runner, a poet, and a husband. “The Blind Pool” is his third novel and sixth book. Find out more at www.paulmchugh.net