Originally posted by Paulina
As I was cruising around on Amazon for some Kindle material, I came across this title, El Dorado Blues, by Shaun Morey. I wondered if it had anything
to do with Baja, and yes, it did. I guess it is the second Baja related book this author has written. This is the blurb from Amazon:
"In the badlands of southern Baja, retired expatriate billionaire Atticus Fish finds himself sabotaging illegal commercial longliners from his one-man
submarine, and schooling boneheaded tourists in civility. But when archaeologist Duncan Rigby gets kidnapped while on the trail of the legendary
Jesuit Treasure, intrepid PI Toozie McGill enlists Atticus to fire up his seaplane and fly off in pursuit. Finding the archaeologist is one thing;
recovering the stolen jewels is something else altogether. Now that word of the Treasure is out, will Atticus and his sideckick, mescal bootlegger
Skegs, stand a chance against the deadly wave of treasure hunters who wash up on Baja’s shores?
A delightfully offbeat mystery adventure brimming with colorful characters and local atmosphere, El Dorado Blues will charm readers in the
best-selling tradition of Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, and Jimmy Buffett"
So, I added it to my cart and read it in two, maybe three nights. (a very easy read). It was an ok story, fun to read, not very deep.
My favorite parts of the book were the Afterword and the Acknowledgments by the author, as much to my surprise he mentions Playa Rafael's real life
character Pancho, J.W. Black, Erle Stanley Gardner, Choral Pepper, and my favorite baja person, Herman Hill!
I did a search on Nomad to see if anyone had read any of this authors work and came up empty.
Has anyone checked this book out, or the other title, "Wahoo Rhapsody"? Shaun Morey writes like he knows baja, and being that baja is such a small
world at times, I was wondering if any Nomads know him?
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