Dominion of the Lionfish: An Inch-Marlowe Thriller

As a Bajun Police Inspector, you learn there's a new cartel pushing carfentanil and cocaine laced with tubers of tuberculous meningitis, you make your way to the American Embassy, and there the Chargé d'affaires stands remote behind his long desk and studies you with frosty blue eyes.Inspector and Sergeant battle the U. S. Embassy's declaration of diplomatic immunity in order to solve the murder of two American diplomats, an investigation that stands to reveal the Kenaima drug cartel's operation to swamp Barbados and other small Caribbean islands with enough Carfentanil-laced cocaine to kill the population a hundred times over.The protagonists are Peter Inch-Marlowe, a Barbadian police inspector and his sergeant Sebastian Brickhouse. Inch-Marlowe, because of his ties to the United States, serves as liaison with the law enforcement agencies at the U.S. Embassy, in the weakening fight against an international drug trade, whose drugs proceed from China and South America and whose routes run through the Windward Islands and on to North America and Europe. In the famous Round Barbados yacht race, the wife of the DEA Chief falls from the masthead of one of the thoroughbred racing yachts and disappears into the wind-driven surf. Inch-Marlowe and Brickhouse discover her body on Cattlewash Beach, and immediately, the Embassy blocks any investigation, aggressively asserting diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention. For the Inspector suspicions abound. Three years earlier, another American diplomat had been found on a Bajun white-sand beach, dead from a gunshot to the head. Defying the Constabulary, the U.S. Embassy aggressively sought protection under the Vienna Convention, guarding the body and returning it to the United States. Inch-Marlowe saw his investigation summarily quashed. Now the Embassy is again insisting on sovereign immunity. Read more