About the Book
Dennis Gimmel’s second novel, Sand Trap
like his first novel Dog Lot, is a fast-paced
thriller, set in the lush country club surroundings of Myrtle Beach.
The laid-back private eye, Jake Brown, is hired by the alluring Mona
Pasko to spy on her womanizing husband Marko. Posing as Mona’s spiritual
advisor, Salloa, Jake snoops around the Pasko estate. He is befriended
by the lovely maid while theologically challenged by the humble groundskeeper.
Meanwhile, several employees of Droughbrigh
Country Club are trapped in the drug smuggling scheme orchestrated
by the Paskos and the big city Mafia. Caught between their well-paying
part in the operation and their need for freedom, seven desperate
young people face the challenge of the Paskos’ control and their own faltering
relationships.
Their story includes murder, blackmail, and infidelity.
The adventure takes the reader from the mansions of Myrtle Beach to the
lavish estates and resorts of Central and South America.
See the comical Jake Brown unmask the country club
fraud and follow the young people as they desperately run from the Mafia,
the Paskos, and each other.
About the Author
Dennis Gimmel’s first novel, Dog Lot, was an overwhelming success
in introducing Jake Brown as the Carolina coast’s most lovable and
bumbling private eye. Dennis will be featuring a series starring Jake Brown
and his colorful sidekicks. Look for the third of the Myrtle Beach
thrillers in the fall of 2003. Dennis, an Ohio native, has called High
Point, North Carolina home for twenty-five years.
Excerpts
It was a hot early fall day. The Carolina low country’s
only relief was a gentle breeze that whipped through the pines and
palmettos. Just twenty years before, this area was a swamp - a swamp
waiting for the inevitable expansion of the Beach. Spurred on by greed
and visions of opportunity, this swamp, like millions of other acres
of swamp along the “Golden Strand,” went the way of progress: golf courses,
outlet malls, restaurants, time-shares, strip-malls, retirement communities,
and pavement. The constant pat of lawn sprinklers and the occasional rattle
of a cell-phone now replaced the age-old serenity of the quiet marsh.
In many ways they were just ordinary young people
- ordinary young people caught up in the world they chose. Like several
thousand people in the Myrtle Beach area, their livelihood revolved
around a golf course. This group had more on their minds than grass
seed and fertilizer, however. They were caught up in a different
kind of game.
“Now, let me get this... you say that God is in everything...
Is that right?” Herndon asked Salloa bright and early Wednesday morning.
Herndon Jones was a likable guy and under normal
circumstances, he would be great company. But dealing with a spiritually
astute person didn’t make Jake’s cover as a “new age” spiritual guide
any easier to pull off. It did make their encounters quite challenging.
Jake wished he would just talk about
the weather or something like that. It would make life so much easier.
“That’s right, Mr. Jones, God is manifested in everything.”
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