Murder on Voodoo Island

<p>[Originally published as <i>Killypso Island</i>]</p><p><strong>The Cold War is heating up in paradise...</strong></p><p>'Captain Joe' Thacker didn't come to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Noel looking for trouble. Just the opposite the former flying ace turned sometimes-smuggler wants nothing more than to while away his days smoking hand-rolled Havana cigars and sipping rum as the melodic beat of calypso drums drift through the sultry air.</p><p>But trouble has a way of finding Captain Joe.</p><p>It begins when the local inspector decides seemingly on a whim to hassle him over a shipment of booze meant for Jacques 'the Candyman' Lagrange-a popular local figure who runs the island's only candy store and happens to be both a gangster and a voodoo priest. He's also the elder brother to the island's despotic governor. The long-simmering rivalry between the Lagrange brothers is starting to boil over making life on the island miserable and posing a serious threat to Captain Joe's livelihood. To make matters worse three suspicious figures who just might be Russian spies show up and start nosing around.</p><p>Then Joe is accused of murdering the island's beloved fortune teller and the wife of the Candyman!</p><p>With some help from an eclectic bunch of island dwellers Joe goes on the run and on the hunt for the real murderer. But St. Noel is a tiny island and the with police a horde of angry voodoo practitioners and a trio of insidious KGB agents hot on his heels Joe's biggest challenge will be staying alive long enough to clear his name.</p>