Drop-Off: A John Rodrigue Novel

by Ken Grissom

Book Overview

Ex-oilfield driver John Rodrique sinks a boat for the insurance and gets in over his head. He chases dope smuggler and cold-blooded killers down a lonely Caribbean coast. The hard-boiled brigade has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312021968
• ISBN13: 9780312021962
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Writing, Unique Character

This book was author Grissom's introduction to his main character, John Rodrigue. It is well written, and Rod is a unique character, not similar to other fictional leading men. This could make a good movie, by the way. It kept me turning pages. Rodrigue has a good mind, and unique view on life. The plot is well thought out and exciting, and the author used a lot of technical detail you can understand to backup a great plot. I highly recommend this book, and am on my way to read "Big Fish", a follow up novel. These books are a little older, I just happened to find this one, but not at all dated technically or social aspects of Grissom's writing. My dog Tucker gives 4 paws up, and I give 2 thumbs up!!

Fast Paced

The Gulf Coast of Texas. Deadly deals are made here...and deadlier secrets are hidden...It was a nice, clean scam, John Rodrigue thought. Sink a boat way out in the Gulf so the owner could collect on the insurance, and pick up two thousand bucks for himself-easy money for a one-eyed salvager with a streak of piracy. After all, with two grand in his pocket and Sandy-a free-spirited and seductive barmaid-in his bed, life looks pretty darn sweet. Then Rodrigue learns that the boat was part of a dirty deal involving drug smuggling and something even dirtier: politics. Even with his glass eye, Rodrigue can see trouble coming...serious trouble.