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He sells his house, moves onto his sailboat and decides to go on an aquatic walkabout; sailing first from New England to the Caribbean and then wherever the wind blows him.Prior to his departure he meets a beautiful, younger, mother of two in recovery, who is trying to put her life back together. When he leaves the dock several weeks later his crew has grown by three to include Tory McCane, her 12-year-old daughter Jan and her 5-year-old son Willy. On the first leg of their trip they survive a two-day storm of hurricane force winds on the way to Bermuda. In Bermuda, they run afoul of an amoral, international drug smuggler named Edward and his mega-yacht full of misfits. Edward is transporting over 180 kilos of premium blow and Ryan vocalizes his suspicions about them to a customs inspector who attempts to take down them down. Edward gets a serious resentment and decides to make their lives a living hell; something he excels at. 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The author of Maelstrom does not always play by the rules, so be warned in advance, you may feel as though you were thrown into a washing machine reading this second segment  Ryan joins forces in this segment with a very unlikely ally in the form of a MA State Trooper who lost his wife to an overdose after suffering from years of addiction. He doesn't really care whether he lives or dies but is determined to avenge his wife and helps Ryan understand how difficult it is to bring people like Edward to justice using just legal means. Ryan might be a live and let live kind of guy but Chris is not. He's more of a live and kill every last one of the cockroaches first kind of guy and has the skills, training and means to so it.In PART I of Maelstrom, Ryan Cunningham leaves the security of his hometown on a sailing adventure to the Caribbean. He meets a beautiful, single, mother of two right before leaving and agrees to let her and her children sail south with him. 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