The Katrina Contract - Paperback

by Larry Nocella (Author)

Kept secret from the American public, after the inept response of public emergency agencies to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, military contractor companies began quietly offering private emergency services. At a price only the wealthy can afford, these contracts function as a world-wide 9-1-1, offering personal rapid-response extraction from anywhere at any time in any situation. The Sunset Mist luxury liner has been overrun by terrorists off the coast of Florida. On board is billionaire Danforth Percy Sinclair, who makes one last desperate phone call before his capture to activate his Katrina contract. On shore, at Redfire Advanced Security Solutions corporate headquarters, Rod North and a small team of ex-Special Forces operatives are dispatched to rescue Mr. Sinclair. Also converging on the scene are a federal negotiator and Navy support vessel. Unknown to them all, there are secrets and deceptions already taking place on The Sunset Mist. Rod North and his team don't know it, but they are charging headlong into a situation far more dangerous and complex than they could possibly imagine. They'll be lucky to extract Sinclair, luckier still to escape alive!

Author Biography

Larry Nocella sold his first article at age fourteen, and has been writing ever since. He is the author of the novels Loser's Memorial and Where Did This Come From? the world's first CarbonFree novel, according to CarbonFund.org. During his writing life he was the editor of QECE: Question Everything Challenge Everything zine, eXtreme Conformity zine, and ROFL: Random Outbursts from Lar! blog. You can read all these and his current blog, One Mind Wild, at LarryNocella.com. He lives in the USA. Larry Nocella statement: I've always thought of myself as a frustrated movie director who found his success in writing. I enjoy films but found the process too slow and the medium a bit limiting. I've always believed a word is worth a thousand pictures. Say "parent" to people and inside their heads there will be as many images as there are people. Plus, writing is so much easier. If I want a fleet of ships in the sky, a few sentences and there they are. Each medium has its benefits and drawbacks, and I enjoy them all, but as far as what I want to do as an artist, prose is my home.