Four Days to Veracruz A Novel

When newlyweds Darren Phillips and Kate North plan their honeymoon, Mexico is the perfect location. Phillips, a former Marine, and North, the world's foremost female adventure athlete, met on the Eco-Challenge extreme team, and want sun, surf, cliffs, and adventure. But when an out-of-bounds kayaking excursion brings them to the beach of a sadistic drug courier, their lives are in serious danger. After killing the courier in defense, they find themselves on a mad escape route across Mexico, a desperate flight from the drug courier's brother, who happens to be Mexico's most notorious drug lord. The Mexican government paints Darren and Kate as sex-crazed drug couriers and murderers themselves. Facing an international incident, the federal government wants no part of the Americans. But while escaping a Mexican prison surrounded my international media, Darren manages to pass a signal to his former roommate, teammate, and disgraced Marine corpsman, Gavin Kelly. If only he interprets it, thousands of miles away in the U.S. The plan is to meet at Veracruz. Darren and Kate have all of the survival and military skills to make the four-day trek across the belly of Mexico, but it will take much more than that this to survive, pursued as they are by both the Mexican government and the drug lord's team of hired assassins.West, Owen is the author of 'Four Days to Veracruz A Novel' with ISBN 9780743229821 and ISBN 0743229827.