Bay of One Hundred Fires

Small Press Bookwatch, Jan, 2005

Bay Of One Hundred Fires

J. Lanier Yeates

Brazos Valley Press

PO Box 215, Calvert, TX 77837-0215

097268221X $24.95 www.brazosvalleypress.com

Bay Of One Hundred Fires is a "what if" novel should Saddam Hussein have had and employed the weapons of mass destruction that the U.S. and its allies thought he had prior to the American invasion that toppled the despot from his absolute control of Iraq. At the heart of this riveting story are Juan Navarro, his sister Mariisa, and his father Salvador, a family of poor Cubans who find themselves swept up into the struggle between the American navy and a global terror network. Another key protagonists are a young Navy lieutenant commander, maverick CIA analysts, a self-made oil explorer, a nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser skipper by the name of Hoss Mueller, an aging Communist dictator, rogue scientists with special training, and genocidal, suicidal fanatics funded by Middle Eastern oil money. Bay Of One Hundred Fires could be a story ripped from the pages of any contemporary newspaper. This is the kind of "can't put it down" action/adventure/suspense novel of which block buster movies are made!