This I Swear

Crete Sloan a rambunctious hard-nosed tough guy banged around lifes experiences before absconding to a remote island in the Bahamian Atlantic. First as an enforcer for the Pittsburgh mob through high school and into his early twenties then shot and left for dead by a close friend a career change to the Pittsburgh cops where he couldnt do the discipline then a private eye and now a mercenary for the good guys. Arlo Taylor is a British billionaire working out of London whose wife and two grown daughters are slaughtered aboard his yacht the Skyliner by Somali Pirates. He hires Sloan to deliver justice. Sloans search for the murderous pirates takes him from his island in the Bahamas to London the Netherlands France and Africa. Along the way he grapples with Taylors bodyguard Sir Humphrey Bellingham who wants Sloan off the case and finds an ally in Captain Ellis Gordon the commander of the Lemonnier naval base in Djibouti. Gordon warns Sloan that should he pursue the case into Somalia he stands no chance of returning alive. Sloan cant run wont turn tail never has. He pursues justice for Arlo Taylor and lands finally in Somalia without a clue as to whom the pirates are what they look like or where to find them. A third world failed state decrepit lives and piracy wait for Sloan in the Horn of Africa where he meets the undaunted killers head on.