The Road to Key West Book 14
Book Blurb:
Once again, we find our intrepid adventurers, Kansas Stamps and Will Bell, in the midst of a wild Caribbean adventure on an exotic island, and in a whirlwind of extraordinary circumstance – a lost pirate treasure, a godfather villain with horrible pets, vengeful monastery monks, beautiful women who rarely take no for an answer, and an impending hurricane with absolutely no appreciation for timing. Then, when you add the regular wild bunch of Travis Christian, Cody Joe, and Crazy Eddie, you’ve got a serious package of adventure…
Did I mention the crocodiles? Or the drunken bombmaker, or the Lorenzos?
Oh well, you’ll just have to read it to find out….
My Review:
“Remember, you’re not dead until someone can touch your eyeballs and they don’t flinch. Until then, you got a fighting chance. – Crazy Eddie”
Yes, I’m well overdue to review the latest book by one of my favorite authors, this owing to a personal tragedy in his life that shut down any writing until many of his good buddies encouraged him to get started with life again. Fortunately, he managed to find yet another adventure he hadn’t previously given his spell-binding storytelling efforts.
This one has the Hole in The Coral Wall Gang looking to Roatan Island seeking yet another treasure. The gang is populated by our storied band of treasure seekers with equipment and many skills honed from some serious recent military service.
Our two main guys, Will and Kansas gather together Crazy Eddie, Travis, and Cody in a quest to Roatan Island to help a plantation owner with a troublesome neighbor. Of course, one thing leads to another and soon ole Will and Kansas are up to their necks in alligators.
Literally.
There has to be a good side to this crazy adventure and that’s the beautiful daughters from the plantation but the bad side is the neighbor with the caimans who develops a strong dislike for our two boys and decides they must not make it off the island alive. It’s an honor thing, you know.
Now, that’s not going to end well!
For the neighbor, that is,
and that sets up a progressively humorous distraction from romancing the girls and seeking the treasure. (Well, not so funny for him.)
Reisig is back with all the history (which I love reading about), the adventure, humorous twists, non-stop action, and the occasional Rufus proverbial phrases.
“…as Rufus would say, ‘Da Gods, dey get bored and so dey make…interesting coincidences…”’
“Sometimes de gods, dey jus’ lightly brushstroke de situations of humans, jus’ for entertainment. Coincidence be dere favorite color – Rufus”
“Da gods, dey love complication. It be like seasoning on da chicken of life.”
I love the characters of the gang, they are well-developed and offer so much spice to the plot. The antagonist is strongly formed in your mind—you can see his rage, smell the sweat. (But how many serious parts could Alteraz afford to lose?)
Slipped in without your notice with all the tumult is the moral that has you realizing later these guys are stand-up, generous, and incredibly lucky. It’s an impenetrable brotherhood borne of shared perilous history.
Welcome back, Michael!
I received a review copy of this book from the author that in no way influenced this review. These are my honest thoughts.
Rosepoint Rating: Four point Five Stars 
Book Details:
Genre: American Humorous Fiction, Satire Fiction, General Humorous Fiction
Publisher: Clear Creek Press
ASIN: B0D7SH45YF
Print Length: 175 pages
Publication Date: June 21, 2024
Source: Author
Title Link(s): The Road to Roatan [Amazon]
The Author: Michael Reisig has been writing professionally for 20 years. He is a former Caribbean adventurer turned newspaper editor, award-winning columnist, and best-selling novelist.
After high school and college in Florida, he relocated to the Florida Keys. He established a commercial diving business, got his pilot’s license, and traveled extensively throughout the southern hemisphere, diving, treasure hunting, and adventuring.
Reisig claims he has been thrown out of more countries in the Caribbean Basin that most people ever visit, and he admits that a great many of the situations and the characters in his novels are authentic – but nothing makes a great read like experience…
He now lives in the mountains of Arkansas, where he hunts and fishes, and writes, but he still escapes to the Caribbean for an occasional adventure.
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