Ken McKea

Book Two in the series of Jim Dallas thrillers, Cuban Dagger finds Dallas's friend Sam Lyons interested in the problem of Judy Hampton, who vanished while celebrating her eighteenth birthday with friends on Aruba.

Runaway-daughter cases, Dallas knows, seldom have happy endings. Still, he had no reason to think that looking for the girl would lead to a tangled web of crime, treachery, and deceit...and a deadly encounter with the mysterious assassin called the Cuban Dagger.

Taut, fast-paced, and tinged with dark humor, Cuban Dagger is a Florida thriller that will be impossible to put down. As Gary Kim Hayes wrote in A Sense of Wonder, "The style is right on the money. Think of John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiassen, and the easy wry style of Nelson Demille. Jim Dallas is my new favorite detective."