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The Garhole Bar
1943
The German war machine sends a top spy to sabotage Gulf Coast industrial areas. Funds for the operation are buried on Galveston Island to await his arrival. His submarine is sunk en route, but the spy survives, lives out the remainder of the war in a POW camp, and then disappears. The loot is never recovered.
1994
Parker McLeod, an ex army Intel Officer, owns a bar on the far west end of Galveston Island. The Garhole Bar has become a refuge to Parker, whose Gulf War Syndrome is so bad that even whisky doesn’t dull the pain anymore.
Then a mysterious stranger arrives on the trail of the WWII cache. Funded by a neo-Nazi group and aided by old Abwehr contacts in Argentina, this ruthless outsider will stop at nothing, including murder. His desperate attempts to find the gold set into motion a chain of events that will change Parker’s life forever...
As the Gulf weather turns deadly, Parker faces un-imaginable danger as his path and the stranger’s collide. Sidetracked by his own inner demons of alcohol and pain, Parker must race to learn the intruder’s intentions and save his family...
The German war machine sends a top spy to sabotage Gulf Coast industrial areas. Funds for the operation are buried on Galveston Island to await his arrival. His submarine is sunk en route, but the spy survives, lives out the remainder of the war in a POW camp, and then disappears. The loot is never recovered.
1994
Parker McLeod, an ex army Intel Officer, owns a bar on the far west end of Galveston Island. The Garhole Bar has become a refuge to Parker, whose Gulf War Syndrome is so bad that even whisky doesn’t dull the pain anymore.
Then a mysterious stranger arrives on the trail of the WWII cache. Funded by a neo-Nazi group and aided by old Abwehr contacts in Argentina, this ruthless outsider will stop at nothing, including murder. His desperate attempts to find the gold set into motion a chain of events that will change Parker’s life forever...
As the Gulf weather turns deadly, Parker faces un-imaginable danger as his path and the stranger’s collide. Sidetracked by his own inner demons of alcohol and pain, Parker must race to learn the intruder’s intentions and save his family...
392 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2014
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November 28, 2018
Great read! Lovely history of Galveston and Houston, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will look for others in the series! Fascinating tale, interwoven with well developed characters and historical events. A great read for a Houstonians, islanders and Texas history buffs.
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