Captain Easy #16

When Captain Easy returns home to find his pal Wash Tubbs missing for two weeks, a cryptic S.O.S. hidden in a farewell note sends him racing to New Orleans on the trail of a mysterious importer named Southern. In the bayou near Barataria Bay, Easy reconnects with old allies from his rum-running days—but discovers that his old nemesis Bull Dawson has returned to the area, and the stakes of finding Wash may be far higher than he bargained for.

Captain Easy finds himself caught in the crosshairs of the ruthless Bull Dawson, who's determined to silence him with an ingenious—if deadly—trap. When Easy is lured to a remote location under false pretenses, he must use his wits to stay one step ahead of Dawson's latest scheme: a rigged boomerang contraption designed to send him straight to Pelican Island in a barrel, permanently. With danger closing in and his friend Wash missing, Easy's survival depends on staying alert to every detail around him.

Captain Easy finds himself trapped on Pelican Isle by the ruthless Bull Dawson and his gang, who've hatched a scheme to capture him—but when a mysterious boat arrives carrying suspicious "war refugees," the situation spirals into something far larger than a simple ambush. With a daring flying tackle and quick thinking, Easy must navigate a web of smugglers, enemy agents, and federal investigators to uncover the truth behind an alien-smuggling operation that reaches all the way to the F.B.I.

Under FBI orders, Captain Easy goes undercover as a dishwasher at the Bon-Ton Cafe to infiltrate a dangerous operation run by the glamorous and ruthless Helga Wolfe, who's plotting a revolution in South America. When Helga discovers Easy's true identity and forces him into a deadly aerial confrontation, both pilot and spy find themselves stranded in the wreckage—and Helga, wounded and desperate, has no intention of letting Easy escape alive.