florida author ronson duncan's new book wired is out

Local author Ronson Duncan has a new book out titled Wired:

On a picture-perfect day, a day cruise ship is hijacked off the coast of Clearwater, Florida and “wired” with explosives. At the same time, car bombs explode across America -- lots of car bombs -- including the DEA headquarters in Virginia. As these startling revelations unfold, the perpetrators turn out to be a rogue army of Mexican narco-guerrillas formerly trained in the U.S. to combat Mexico’s drug mafia. Now working for the cartels, the ‘Los Zetas’ have joined forces with Al-Qaeda to exact the release of Juan Carlos Alvarez -- the most feared and revered drug lord in the western hemisphere.

For Captain Skip Myles, the situation transcends belief. The unimaginable shock of losing his vessel to armed terrorists -- in Florida waters no less, a mere ten miles from port -- has left him a bewildered captive on his own ship. When he doesn’t come home from his evening cruise, his worried wife calls her ex-Navy SEAL brother in Detroit. That evening Cal rushes to her side and later embarks on a mission to rescue Skip himself -- convinced that if he doesn’t, no one else will.

Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ray Hanna has the ship surrounded but finds himself on a political leash. He can’t release Alvarez and he can’t storm the ship without risking the 218 passengers. When the hijackers begin blowing up passengers one-by-one wearing lifejackets rigged with C-4—makeshift suicide bomber vests, Hanna receives 24 hours to end the standoff or lose his command, leaving him with just one unthinkable choice.

Later that night, armed with a black-market Uzi and some borrowed scuba gear, Cal falls back into the Gulf of Mexico for his two-mile underwater swim to the Majestic Star, plunging headlong into a three-way Armageddon between the U.S. Coast Guard, Al-Qaeda, and the Mexican Mafia.

Wired is an explosive new thriller about love, fear, self-doubt, determination and self-sacrifice. It’s about how a single event can change the fragile landscape of ordinary people’s lives. It is a compelling modern-day saga that deals head-on with the proliferation of drug violence spilling across the U.S.-Mexican border.

AUTHOR BIO: Ron Duncan is a retired businessman who resides on the Gulf Coast of Florida. In the mid-90s he owned and operated a Tampa Bay boat-towing business called SEA-TOW, where he worked hand-in-hand with the Coast Guard in rescuing stranded boaters. It was the product of his experiences there that inspired this book. He is an avid reader and this is his first novel.

To order Wired or for more info, visit Old Line Publishing.