The Crisis

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Crisis is a breakneck thrill ride - a guaranteed action-packed international conspiracy thriller.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Get ready for a caravan of chaos in T.O. Paine's high-stakes thrill ride The Crisis.</em> ????? - Indies Today Review</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She wants to quit smoking.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He wants to start a nuclear war.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They both want the girl with the cryptic tattoo.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stuck working at a backwater convenience store in the middle of northern Florida Mattie longs for a cigarette. She longs for her days as a marine biologist at the Queen Aquarium down south. She longs for her best friend-Hank the Manatee. Her colleagues blamed her for his death and now she blames herself. She should have done something sooner.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Today a nervous couple enters the convenience store. The man is big bald and has a tight grip on the girl's arm. The girl is small young and has a number tattooed on her leg. It looks like a brand.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Today a nervous couple enters the convenience store. The man is big bald and has a tight grip on the girl's arm. The girl is small young and has a number tattooed on her leg. It looks like a brand.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When they leave Mattie finds a note on the floor.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. . . Blue Honda mini-van going to Salt Springs. Someone named Stanley.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A similar thing happened to Mattie's cousin. This girl is being kidnapped. Trafficked. The note isn't enough for the police to care but Mattie does. She jumps into her decrepit Toyota wagon and flies onto the highway wasting no time. She's got to stop that mini-van before it reaches Salt Springs. She's got to save that girl before she's sold to the highest bidder.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meanwhile in Cuba a militant rebel has sent his men to the US. He's been searching for a young woman with a cryptic tattoo on her leg for over ten years. When his men bring her to him he'll finally have the negotiating power he needs to overthrow the Cuban government. He'll have the power to make the United States listen to Cuba for once.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's only a matter of time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His men are already in Salt Springs waiting for her.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Crisis is a suspenseful thriller filled with vivid characters mounting tension and explosive twists that keep readers guessing until the final page.</em> ????? - Readers' Favorite</strong></p><p></p>