The Tears of Dark Water

✍ Scribed by Addison, Corban

• Book ID: 108863253
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 373 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780718042103

✦ Synopsis

Sometimes the face of evil is much more complex than we can imagine.

On a dark night in November 2011, seven Somali pirates hijack an American sailing yacht in the Indian Ocean, taking its occupants hostage--eighteen-year-old Quentin Parker and his father, Daniel, who conceived of the around-the-world adventure to save his troubled son. After a long standoff with the US Navy, the negotiations break down and the pirates do the unthinkable, shooting both hostages.

Three people are deeply affected by the shooting: Paul Derrick, the hostage negotiator whose failure to secure the release of the Parkers reminds him of a more personal tragedy long ago and whose sister Megan becomes the attorney for the accused; Vanessa Parker, an American doctor who flew the ransom money ten thousand miles only to see her family shattered; and Ismail, the pirate fingered by his compatriots as the triggerman. After questioning Ismail, Derrick is convinced that there...