Jake Sullivan had everything his dream job as Chief Prosecutor in the Miami Office of the Justice Department, a lovely family, and good friends. But, when his drinking and obsession with a case lets a cold-blooded killer go free, Jake's life is shattered. Thrown a life-line, he heads south to Key West and builds a small practice fighting marine insurance companies. But his failures still haunt him. One night, returning from settling a case in Miami, Jake stumbles upon a covert meeting between Attorney General Benjamin Matthews, the man who fired him, and the serial killer he let go free. What follows is Jake's fight for redemption and his life as he unravels a Machiavellian plot that leads from Key West to the White House.

Come Monday (Book 1)(The Jake Sullivan Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Chip Bell

Thrillers & Suspense

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It is the end of June and President Jordan Fletcher has just negotiated a historical treaty with Cuba, and its signing will be held at the end of October in Miami. Because of Fletcher s past relationship with him in the Benjamin Matthews matter, he has asked Jake Sullivan to coordinate the treaty signing ceremony. Just as Jake and his investigator and close friend, Mike Lang, begin their job, they receive the astounding news that Benjamin Matthews has died in prison of a heart attack, at the same time learning that an assassination plot has been hatched against the President and Raul and Fidel Castro. Working with a threat analysis expert from the Secret Service, Jonathan Clark, and Paula Cortez, a specialist in Cuban affairs from the FBI, who appears to be more than just a former colleague of Mike Lang, Jake sets about trying to diffuse the plot by discovering the identity of a mysterious assassin known only as The Agent , employed by an even more secret organization, The Birth of New Madrid. As the summer months move by with the assassin still on the loose, the tension builds at Jake s office, just as tension builds out on the open water as a very active hurricane season is underway. Worrying about Mother Nature and the plot at hand, Jake and his team finally come face to face with their mysterious assassin and soon come to realize he is only part of a much greater threat. Racing to save the treaty signing and the lives of the President and the Castro brothers, this second novel by Chip Bell heads to an explosive finish where Jake discovers the true nature of the danger they face and finds himself in one final battle a battle for his life and the lives of his family now that he realizes the ultimate truth the target all along was him.

Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season (Book 2)(The Jake Sullivan Series)

Mystery

It s the summer of 1958, and Meyer Lansky, the mob s accountant, is barely a warm breeze away from seeing the crown jewel of his gambling empire sparkling on the ocean: Havana, the Monte Carlo of the Caribbean. Then... Castro came down from the mountains, armed and on a mission. Batista s days were numbered, and so was his patronage of Lansky and his cronies. It was said Lansky moved hundreds of millions of dollars out of Cuba. But, when he died in 1983, his estate was reported to be worth only sixty thousand dollars in cash. What happened to the money? With the ratification of the treaty between the U.S. and Cuba, President Jordan Fletcher is encouraging American entrepreneurship on the island. Enter the mob...with a revived dream of government-sanctioned criminal enterprise. Two competing factions are vying to become the new Havana Mob and each knows the key to success is finding Lansky s missing millions. One faction, led by the mysterious Le Lisiado, is on the offensive: Paula Cortez, President Fletcher's liaison to the new Cuban government, is kidnapped When Mike Lang learns of the kidnapping, he rushes to Havana to save the woman he loves. Threating Paula's death, Le Lisiado blackmails Mike into finding the lost Lansky millions. Desperate for help, Mike calls upon his best friend, Jake Sullivan. Aided by a former Lansky employee, Silvio Caroselli, and Manuel Ortega, the new Chief of Havana Police, Mike and Jake track clues through a maze of leads, racing to find the treasure and save Paula s life. Chip Bell's third novel takes the reader on a twisted treasure hunt that begins in 1950s Havana and leads to an ending that no one, especially Jake and Mike, could have thought possible.

Havana Daydreamin' (Book 3)(The Jake Sullivan Series)

The South Beach Sadist is dead . . . Jake had seen to that. But in two weeks, Miami has two new victims, each butchered and their bodies marked with the sign of the Sadist . . . a sign never revealed to the public. As cryptic clues, and the promise of a third victim, begin to arrive in his office, Jake Sullivan, Chief Prosecutor for the Justice Department in Miami, and Mike Lang, his investigator and best friend, are once again hunting a madman. As the trail leads to a rogue DEA agent, Jake and Mike close in on the killer, not realizing that saving victim three means saving one of their own.

Son Of A Son Of A Sailor (Book 6)(The Jake Sullivan Series)

He Went To Paris (Book 9) (The Jake Sullivan Series)

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