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Brackish Water: An Angus Green Novel Kindle Edition

by Neil S. Plakcy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
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FBI Special Agent Angus Green returns to the world of stolen art when a Cuban refugee uses the location of an old master painting to negotiate for his freedom. The perilous waters along Florida’s coastline get easily breached by those smuggling drugs, stolen goods, and human refugees. Angus wades in eagerly, as always, only to discover hidden currents and dangerous obstacles.

At the same time, Angus's romantic life is heating up as it presents new challenges, and his stepfather’s death gives his mother the opportunity to tell Angus the truth about his parentage in a way that completely rocks his boat.
From gnarled mangrove roots to deadly villains, people and places stand in Angus’s way to keeping his head above water.
Can Angus navigate the brackish waters of the Florida Keys-- and political privilege-- while staying within the law?

Angus Green [is] the affable hero of this brisk series launch set in South Florida … readers will look forward to seeing a lot more of Angus. Publishers Weekly on The Next One Will Kill You
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Neil Plakcy is the author of over thirty romance and mystery novels. He lives in South Florida with his partner and two rambunctious golden retrievers. His website is www.mahubooks.com.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BPMTGPNV
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Samwise Books; 1st edition (January 5, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 5, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4331 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B0BPGGB3VV
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings

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Thanks for reading! I’d love to stay in touch with you. Visit my home page at www.mahubooks.com, where you can subscribe to one or more of my newsletters. I hope you'll also consider following me at Goodreads to see what I'm reading, and subscribe to my author page at Facebook where I post news and giveaways.

I've wanted to be an author since I was about sixteen, when a high school assignment on A Separate Peace showed me how powerful writing can be. At the University of Pennsylvania I studied creative writing with Philip Roth and Carlos Fuentes; I went on to receive my MFA from Florida International University.

My first published novel was Mahu, about a Honolulu homicide detective dragged out of the closet during a tough case. I put a lot of myself into Kimo Kanapa'aka, the hero, and yet he’s very much his own character, and much better than I am! He has had a powerful hold on my imagination for many years. I love writing about him and hope to keep doing so for a long time. He’s also the source of my favorite reader question. A few years ago, someone emailed to ask if he was circumcised.

My first reaction was “Man, I’ll bet Stephen King doesn’t get questions like that.” But then, his are probably even weirder. I went online and did some research and discovered that at the time Kimo was born, hospital circumcisions were common. So there you go.

My path to publication was a long and checkered one, as is the case with many authors. My first published stories were magazine erotica, and I still like to keep my hand in (no pun intended) with that kind of writing. But for the most part now I write mystery and romance—all my books seem to have both those elements, though in different proportions.

I began writing the golden retriever mysteries because I spent so much time walking my golden, Samwise (yes, I’m a Tolkien geek). He had so many funny habits and such a strong personality that I just knew I had to write a book that featured a dog like him. (Fortunately, Sam had no habit of finding dead bodies.)

I live in Hollywood, Florida now, with my partner and our golden retrievers, Brody and Griffin.

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Sandra House
5.0 out of 5 stars I kept wanting to read and not stop!
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024
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The book was so good I didn’t want to stop reading! It was hard for me to stop reading and go to sleep!
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Ulysses Grant Dietz
5.0 out of 5 stars A great action/emotion balance makes this the richest book in the series so far.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2023
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With every new Angus Green book from Neil Plakcy’s pen, I want another one. This fourth installment is particularly rich, both in action and in emotional themes that weave through the text. What’s interesting to me is that Plakcy manages to balance the action/emotion equation very neatly.

There are two major themes in “Brackish Water” (an odd title, but one that refers to South Florida’s massive and essential mangrove swamps, the endangered source of its ecological stability). Central to the book's emotional tone is the father/son relationship, which touches on literal parental ties, but also to those friendships and acquaintances where one person is more settled and mature than the other, and thus adopts a kind of paternal approach. This segues nicely into the other, broader theme – that of life transitions, or even life-changing transitions.

Angus Green is the core of all of this, and his gentle, strong, self-aware, and caring personality is just right for this role. Odd how authors do that.

We learn a lot about Angus’s past here, and about his family. However, the book is equally interested in his professional development, from an accountant working the spreadsheets for FBI field agents, to an on-the-ground agent, trying to do the right thing when that goal is not always unambiguous. Angus’s caring nature – his concern for people, which is sometimes more important to him that the letter of federal law – plays a major role in this.

And, it’s not that Angus isn’t concerned about himself and his own happiness. He is a happy person, both by nature and by his own determination. He overthinks, but he doesn’t let himself fall into self-destructive spirals that undermine his path forward—either to justice or to happiness.

As a retired museum curator who could be Angus’s father, and has raised two adoptive children, the art- historical angle to this story resonated deeply, but no moreso than the father/child narrative. It is a deftly crafted combination that makes this the most enjoyable book of the whole series so far.
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TRISH JOHNSON
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2023
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Fascinating
Great story
Fabulous Characters LBGT readers will enjoy very much. Thanks
Poor proof reading many grammar and spelling mistakes
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M Marshall
3.0 out of 5 stars cardboard romance and characters/ terrific mystery
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023
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Rating: 3🌈

Brackish Water is the fourth of the Angus Green novels I’ve read by Neil S. Plakcy, and it’s the one where the series flaws are becoming more apparent.

The strongest aspect of every book has been the mystery and FBI agent Angus Green’s ability to connect with the people involved in the crimes, usually on the hazy end of the spectrum of right and wrong, probably the criminal side, those that may be gay, and need someone to speak for them. That and the crimes are the best part, along with the location of southern Florida in all its messy ways.

That continues here. The art world, the Cuban connection, the plight of the people fleeing Cuba only to find out that they are turning back. It’s dishearteningly sad and believable in this well written storyline.

But what removes the reader from the terrific mystery and its layered narrative is Angus himself and his increasingly wooden relationship with his lover Lester. It started out in the previous stories as just a few lines, then filler paragraphs so a reader could ignore the lack of written chemistry or anything other than a one-dimensional storyline that existed for Lester and Angus.

Only now Plakcy seems resolved to make this a new solid element and it’s feels like an interminable boring couple has entered the building.

Nothing is believable about them. There’s absolutely zero emotion involved. That includes the reader.

Least of all from Angus who is out to save many people and do right by others. Yet when it come to Lester? It’s a flattened version of Angus we hear from.

Oddly mechanical, dispassionate in his approach towards his boyfriend, Lester, viewing him in emotionally distant terms often more suitable for a catalog swimsuit model or hookup rather than someone you’re supposed to love. This element of the Angus Green series has become increasingly problematic as the relationship between Angus and Lester has become more serious, at least on the page.

We hear about Lester’s body, his bedroom skills, his body parts, on and on. Then here, turns out he knows about art. Then Angus doesn’t agree with how Lester handle’s money. But he sure likes his body. I’m very tired of them whenever they get together, honestly. It’s a one-sided perspective and it’s always the same. A one-dimensional relationship with zero dynamics.

And it removes the reader from the mystery.

You start to wish someone would kill off Lester and reinvigorate the series and poor old Angus.

Something needs to. It’s looking pretty dreary.

Plakcy is capable of writing excellent dialogue, seating his characters and storylines deep within his chosen locales. When it all connects, it’s magical. See his Mahu series.

It hasn’t happened here. Not sure it will. But I do see flashes of it in Angus Green and Southern Florida. Just not enough.

Angus Green series:
- [x] The Next One Will Kill You #1
- [x] Nobody Rides For Free #2
- [x] Survival Is A Dying Art #3
- [x] Brackish Water #4
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ED
5.0 out of 5 stars A joy to read!
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023
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Angus Green has yet another case, a budding career, and all the usual family and personal relationships to handle. That he struggles with all of these at once (successfully) makes for an easy fast paced adventure. Smart, handsome, talented, adventurous, decent and gay. I know these are all tropes for gay literature but Neil Plakcy weaves a very satisfying story. Perfect. I look forward to more in this series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Suburb series
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2023
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All the elements of a good, can barely put it down, read. You're right there in their thoughts, in the middle of the action, in the mosquito infested mangroves. Read slowly and savor these stories.
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JC
5.0 out of 5 stars Angus returns!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2023
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It's always good to get a new Angus Green novel from Neil and this is a particularly strong one. Angus is pulled into the life of a young gay Cuban who is in a detention centre after his arrest as an illegal immigrant. This leads Angus into the world of art smuggling which is far removed from his desk job with the FBI. We get to know Yulirus, the young Cuban, and discover his reason for leaving Cuba. It's a great story with the usual amount of tension - but the book also delve's deeper into Angus's private life and It's a time of great change for him. All in all, this is a totally engrossing story and I highly recommend the book.
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