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Hell Sail

A wealthy man and head of his own law firm has a company investigator keep tabs on his trophy wife he suspects is involved with one of his young attorneys. But when the investigator gets the goods on the two he blackmails them into a murder plot to collect half of the husband’s insurance policy.

All is setup and the murder to go down as an accident while on a weekend excursion aboard the intended’s sixty-foot sailing yacht. But all plans go awry when a bite from a strange looking hooked fish launches a rabid virus into the bitten one’s blood stream sending them into an uncontrollable homicidal rage that spreads through contact. Six are aboard when the yacht cast off from San Diego en-route to the islands of Guadalupe, but only five know what lies ahead with three completely surprised as the tables are turned leaving the conspirators at the mercy of the intended victim and his unsuspected accomplice. But all plans go awry when a bite from a strange looking hooked fish launches a rabid virus into the bitten one’s blood stream sending them into an uncontrollable homicidal rage that spreads through contact. As the remaining crew fight for their lives on what they now recognize as the “sail from hell” the virus spreads from one to the other as they race for safe shores with no wind, little fuel left, and a crazed fish still hooked to the pole tracking them in the ship’s wake.

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Posted:
07/01/2022
Updated:
07/11/2023
Author Bio:
James is the author of fifteen screenplays and three novels adapted from their original screenplays and available on Amazon. BUCK and the ANGEL, A COP’S STORY and BLOODY BUSINESS are available in the Kindle book store in digital download and paperback. James’ character, Travis Starr, returns from A Cop’s Story, retired and now a private investigator in Bloody Business. James’ screenplay, THE SHELTER, was optioned once in 2003 by Anything but Hollywood films, and again in 2006 by Ryan Harper of Your Half Pictures in Los Angeles.

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