Stone Cold Bluff

Ray won it playing poker with a pair of twos. Now it could cost him everything.

Naval intelligence officer Ray Ramage is sent to a Georgetown poker game with one assignment: observe Farouk Khalil, a Lebanese arms dealer suspected of moving people and weapons across borders. Ray goes to watch. He ends up winning the man’s yacht.

The Stella Maris is a hundred and twelve feet of ocean-going capability, a hidden compartment, and sixty-three thousand dollars in unpaid bills. Khalil is gone by morning. What he left behind goes well beyond the boat.

When a Russian woman surfaces with testimony that could bring down an entire criminal network, Ray finds himself managing a protection detail, a dockside gunfight, and the quiet question of whether anyone around him can be trusted long enough to keep her alive.

Stone Cold Bluff is a taut, atmospheric thriller for fans of John le Carré and Daniel Silva.