Ballast Point Breakdown
Fasten your seat-belts and say your prayers.
G.M. Ford, author of the Leo Waterman crime series
On a cool winter evening, a speedboat hurtles across San Diego Bay and crashes into the Admiral’s Club where a farewell party for the Navy’s top-secret Dolphin Divers program is underway. As guests flee the ensuing fire, a woman named Janis Withers crawls from the inferno and screams her last words – Arion has returned!
Guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters finds himself pulled into the case when he connects Janis to a pair of dog tags left behind by Butch Fleetwood, a member of the Dolphin Divers who disappeared during a training exercise twenty years earlier.
While fending off the FBI and local police, Rolly uncovers tantalizing connections between Fleetwood, a crusading journalist, a celebrity artist, a punk rock singer, a radical animal-rights organization, and the dead woman’s own dysfunctional family. As he races against the authorities to uncover Arion’s true identity, Rolly’s investigation begins to reverberate with his own painful history. His search for the truth leads to a ruined casino on a deserted Mexican island where shocking secrets are unleashed in a ruthless showdown between tormented and tormentors.
Fayman delivers a twisted tale that starts with a bang and unfurls like a breaker in the San Diego surf.
Matt Goldman, NYT Bestselling Author and Shamus Award Nominee
A terrific read, featuring a cast of wise-cracking characters navigating some very dark waters.
Bill Fitzhugh, author of HUMAN RESOURCES and PEST CONTROL
San Diego Book Awards
Dolphins, a dead environmental activist, a defense contractor, and a shadowy harmonica player are all pieces to an exciting, twisty mystery jigsaw puzzle.
Matt Coyle, author of the award-winning Rick Cahill crime series
Entertaining and told with panache, Ballast Point Breakdown is a gripping mystery that forwards clues and prompts laughter. A pitch perfect murder mystery featuring an eccentric detective.
Foreword REviews
A truly original story and a protagonist unlike any other in crime fiction.
Lisa Brackmann, author of ROCK PAPER TIGER & BLACK SWAN RISING
A high-speed mystery that picks the reader up and never lets down.
San Francisco Book Review