Diamond Reef

A Chase Gordon Tropical Thriller

By: Douglas Pratt

Narrated by: Aidan Harris

Chase Gordon has the life.

The former marine works part-time as a bartender to support his life island-hopping on his 40-foot sailboat.

When the pretty young wife of one of his fellow marines shows up looking for her husband, Chase steps in to help her out. Immediately, he finds himself in a stand-off between one of South Florida's most dangerous drug dealers and the DEA.

Now, he's left wondering what kind of trouble his friend might be facing. Can Chase even save him?

Filled with action and adventure, Chase Gordon is the next Travis McGee.

©2020 Douglas Pratt (P)2020 Douglas Pratt

Fun adventure

I really liked my first listen of this series. It was adventurous and since I am residing in Florida and boat and fish, it struck a tone with me. I like it enough to look for the next episode. At first I wasn't into the narrator, then after I gave it a listen I was alright with Aiden. Keep mind my benchmark is Ray Porter, so that's a tough one. He did a good job overall. As with all these stories, you have to be able to relax and enjoy it, knowing that the idea that these guys really would get in the middle of all off this is far fetched. What I like is that the author is a good researcher and most of them lingo and military references are on target for the most part.

Exciting action story

The dialogue and descriptions evoke strong mental images of Florida and beach life. If John D McDonald is a "10", Doug Pratt is a strong "8" / "8.5". The only negative was the reader consistently pronouncing "gunwale" as "gun-whale" instead of the correct "gun-nel"...clearly not someone familiar with boats.

Nice lifestyle

Good stuff. I'll read more in the series. I enjoy the adventures in the tropics.

Liked the main character, not too overbearing

Good story with enough twists and turns to prevent the plot from being a cliche

Reader mispronunciation of Macon, GA and Mobile, AL.

Reader needs better prep of southern cities names. Mispronunciation was laughable to a southerner. Took away from the story to me.