Suspense Publishing Neptune's eye, paperback/paul kemprecos

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UNDERWATER UNDERHANDEDNESS .

A simple missing-persons case: Find Frederick Walther's beautiful young daughter, who disappeared after a love affair turned sour.

Simple, that is, until Leslie Walther's lover turns up dead in a fishy place-the seal pool at the Woods Hole aquarium.

Part-time fisherman-part-time private eye Soc Socarides finds the highly loathsome Tom Drake had a number of acquaintances, business rivals, ex-lovers, and an ex-wife-all with reason to want him dead.

Soc's investigation turns up so many knotted threads he could make a fishnet: a long-lost German U-boat, a cutting-edge underwater vehicle, corporate espionage, a shady munitions dealer, and a CIA spook from Soc's distant past.

Soc hopes the net will snare a murderer.

But if he makes one wrong move, it could drag him down to a cold, wet, silent grave.

About the Author: My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate.

For it was in 1717 that a ship, the Whydah went aground, reportedly carrying a treasure.

In the 1980s, three salvage groups went head-to-head, competing to find the wreck.

The controversy over the salvage got hot at times and I thought there might be a book in their story.

I developed my own detective, an ex-cop, diver, fisherman, and PI named Aristotle Soc Socarides.

He was more philosophical than hard-boiled.

Making his first appearance in Cool Blue Tomb, the book won the Shamus award for Best Paperback novel.

After many years in the newspaper business, I turned to writing fiction and churned out five more books in the series.

Clive Cussler blurbed: There can be no better mystery writer in America than Paul Kemprecos.

Despite the accolades, the Soc series lingered in mid-list hell.

By the time I finished my last book, I was thinking about another career that might make me more money, like working in a 7-11.

Several months after the release of Bluefin Blues, Clive called and said a spin-off from the Dirk Pitt series was in the wor.