Shallow Sea

Grant North, businessman & ex-lunar scientist, builds his own "moon colony" on earth, a shrimp farm & technology center on a small Bahamian island. When the crew of his supply ship is killed at sea by the Bahama's Defense Force, allegedly for running cocaine, the fate of his daughter Coby rides in the balance. Her disappearance & the tensions between North & the corrupt government ignite a fuse that burns through the novel to its explosive conclusion. With the authority that comes from having lived an analog of this story on his own island, Neil Ruzic pits an altruist's dream to build a self-sufficient mecca against a racist Caribbean bureaucracy. Ruzic introduces the alcoholic salesman J.C. with a girl on each arm; the oily-voiced Prime Minister & his beautiful mulatto daughter, with whom North falls in love; necrophiliac Capt. St. Gregory. The most poignant character, however, is the island itself. Ruzic gives it an identity & makes it come alive as a living organism that protects its settlers, resists a hurricane, & endures the rape of fire by its enemies. Combining today's current themes: reverse race prejudice, drugs, technology, & third-world politics. THE SHALLOW SEA is an emotion-packed thriller.Ruzic, Neil is the author of 'Shallow Sea' with ISBN 9780963235701 and ISBN 0963235702.