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When troubles mount, monotony metastasizes and relief
is nowhere in sight, have you ever considered just saying “screw it” and
fleeing life’s miseries? Most people have—few actually do. Quint not
only considers ditching his cheating wife and dead end job for a
tropical escape; he does and heads for the Keys.
After finishing two tours of duty as a Navy SEAL, Quint longs for an ordinary life away from death and brutality. However, his post-service American dream becomes nothing more than a deep sleep and he finds himself longing for a sense of purpose—a mission. He begins his new life tamely enough—as a charter boat captain in pursuit of the legal limits for his clients. But soon events converge and thrust Quint into a race to find the world’s most valuable treasure. Quint must extract himself from a shipwreck, and rogue naval forces. He flees from the pursuit of a vile cadre of pirates and thieves committed to snatching the treasure from the grasp of ancient history or from anyone who gets in their way.
Frank J. Wilem, is an entrepreneur living in Gulfport,
Mississippi with his wife, Dee Dee, and daughter, Brittany. Frank's love
for the sea blossomed during his high school years at West High in
Torrance, California, when a friend convinced him to snorkel off Lunada
Bay in Palos Verde. When it was his turn to use the mask, one look
beneath the chilly Pacific waters and he was hooked. After graduating
from Texas A&M with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, the
call of the ocean led him to the University of Miami where he earned a
Masters degree in Ocean Engineering.
Frank
worked in the R&D departments for two Fortune 500 companies, Texas
Instruments and Chrysler, before his love of the ocean led him to join
Computer Sciences Corporation at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay
St. Louis, Mississippi. He left there to become a founder of Triton
Systems, Inc., which he and his partners grew into a $100 million
company and the nation's largest manufacturer of automatic teller
machines. With the sale of Triton, Frank purchased his sportfish boat
Vixen and pursued his passion for bluewater fishing. Most
days he and Captain Eric Gill can be found in the northern waters of the
Gulf of Mexico or the Bahamas, chasing billfish, tuna, wahoo and
dolphin. The Keys is Wilem's first book.