{"product_id":"9780974524672","title":"Hurricane","description":"Julie Tanaka lives on a sailboat in the Caribbean with  her husband Hideo. He is away, delivering a sailboat  to California and her daughter Meiko is visiting  during a break in her college education. They are  playing in their dinghy, zooming as fast as they can  off the western coast of Trinidad, when they discover  a body floating in the water. They hurry back to the  marina, only to find the police waiting. However they  are not there for the dead man, instead they inform  Julie that her husband has been killed along with two  known drug smugglers when the boat he was delivering  blew up off the California coast.\u003cp\u003e    Before the women get a chance to digest this tragic  information, DEA agent Bill Broxton shows up at their  boat wanting to question Julie about her Japanese  American husband. Julie is furious, sends him away.  The police come back, then an attorney representing  TYS, Trinidad Yacht Services shows up with papers that  say the women have to leave the boat, as it's been  confiscated because of debts owed the shipyard. Julie  knows the papers are false, so she and Meiko sneak the  boat out of the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    TYS is owned by German crooks who are in cahoots with  the Salizar drug cartel. One of the ways they get  their illegal goods into the United States is by  hiding them on expensive yachts bound for Florida, but  with Hideo dead and his wife and daughter not knowing  about the drugs and having fled, they have no choice  but to send a crew after them to try and get their  cocaine back. However, they have an ace in the hole,  because Julie and Meiko have taken Victor Drake aboard  to help them get the boat away. Victor works for the  Salizars, but he wants Meiko, so he does his best to  sabatoge the boat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Broxton teams up with T-Bone Powers, a likable pirate,  but a drug smuggler himself, and they go after the  women to try and save the damsels in distress before  the drug smugglers catch them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Meanwhile as the smugglers close on the women,  Hurricane Darlene is speeding her way across the  Atlantic. Bad guys behind, a hurricane in front, a  saboteur on board and our heroines not very  experienced sailors, but they learn fast as the skies  darken and their options run out.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bootleg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029331853552,"sku":"9780974524672","price":13.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780974524672_p0.jpg?v=1763877840","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780974524672","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}