Damaged
By: Alex Kava
Series: Maggie O'Dell -- 8; Maggie O'Dell; A Maggie O' Dell novel; Maggie O'Dell; Maggie O'Dell -- 8.
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781847443397; 9781847443380
Subjects: Women detectives; Government investigators; Hurricanes; Fiction
Description: On Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane that has entered the Gulf of Mexico. When the air crew patrols the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve them. But when the crew open this cooler, they're shocked by what they find: body parts tightly wrapped in plastic. Though she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is sent to investigate. Eventually, she's able to trace the torso in the cooler back to a man who mysteriously disappeared weeks earlier after a hurricane hit Port St. Lucie, Florida. Only Port St. Lucie is on the Atlantic side. How did his body end up six hundred miles away in the Gulf of Mexico?