Operation Caribe: A Pirate Hunters Novel

Pirate Hunters #2

by Mack Maloney

Modern Pirates of the Caribbean Terror stalks the Bahamas. Someone is killing wealthy seagoing tourists, leaving no clues to the identity of the marauders and no trace of their victims' bodies. The Bahamian police are baffled, and when a Coast Guard boat is discovered on a reef, its officers murdered, tourism authorities realize they need outside help, or this crime wave will ruin the islands' biggest business. Team Whiskey, U.S. soldiers-turned-pirate-hunters, have tangled with Somali pirates, retrieved millions of dollars of stolen cargo and thwarted other high-seas piracy. They run to ground a gang of ruthless Caribbean pirates, but before they can tie up the loose ends, they have unfinished business to settle with Asia's pirate kingpin. When they return, they face a threat more deadly than any piracy, a plot that'll blow the Caribbean sky high, unless the pirate hunters can do what even the U.S. Navy cannot . . .

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Mack Maloney is the author of numerous fiction series, including Wingman, ChopperOps, Starhawk, and Pirate Hunters, as well as UFOs in Wartime – What They Didn’t Want You to Know. A native Bostonian, Maloney received a bachelor of science degree in journalism at Suffolk University and a master of arts degree in film at Emerson College. He is the host of a national radio show, Mack Maloney’s Military X-Files. Visit him on Facebook and at www.mackmaloney.com.

Mack Maloney is the Pen name for BRIAN KELLEHER

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Operation Caribe is the second of Maloney's three Pirates Hunters books. The Pirate Hunters (one of whom is known as Batman; how'd that not cause copyright problems?), fresh from their adventures in Africa, head for the Bahamas after a brief detour to Asia. It's fun and standard adventure fare: techno/thriller outlaw military ops, call it what you will, it's the good guys and the bad guys and it'll never get old.

[Justin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have read a lot of Mack Maloney's Wingman series and thought - hey, let's give this series a shot since I liked that series. Plus, there was a massive price drop on Google Play. Here is what I liked about this book: it was action packed, and like all Maloney books, it doesn't take itself very seriously. He is not trying to compete with Clancy, Bond, or the current generation of techno-thriller authors.

Where I took the stars off was that it got ludicrous towards the end. Yes, I did say the author doesn't rely on accuracy which is a plus, but there are limits. That is also true for the true motivations of the villains. Third, this book is serialized where the events of the first book are mentioned. If you didn't read the previous book, then you might be lost. There is a balance between giving just enough information and slowing the plot where the reader gets an extensive recap.