Murder on the High Seas, The True Story of the Joe Cool's Tragic Final Voyage
I am posting this forum on behalf of the author, Carol Soret Cope, promoting her latest book
Murder on the High Seas.
Murder on the High Seas – The True Story of the Joe Cool's Tragic Final Voyage is a true crime book written by Carol Soret Cope, bestselling author of In the
Fast Lane: A True Story of Murder in Miami and
Stranger Danger: How to Keep Your Child Safe. The book explores the investigation into the mysterious murders aboard the
Joe Cool.
On routine patrol off the coast of Cuba, a United States Coast Guard cutter spotted a “ghost ship” – a luxury forty-seven-foot sportfisher drifting on the tide, abandoned and out of fuel, its interior ransacked and its deck speckled with blood.
The next morning, a helicopter crew plucked two men from a life raft nearby. Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo told rescuers they had chartered the Joe Cool from a one-way trip from Miami to the Bahamas. They went on to tell an incredible story – pirates had ambushed the boat, killing its crew: captain Jake Branam; his wife, Kelly; crew member and Jake Branam’s half brother, Scott Michael Gamble; and Samuel Kairy. Only Archer and Zarabozo had survived.
But as the FBI investigated, Archer and Zarabozo’s story began to fall apart. A far more bizarre tale unfolded in a Miami federal courtroom as prosecutors make the case that the captain and crew had indeed been hijacked and murdered – not by pirates, but by their own charter passengers…
To this day there are still on-going issues surrounding the custody of the two young children orphaned by this unfortunate tragedy.
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The Berkley Publishing Group
Published by the Penguin Group
ISBN: 978-0-425-23977-3
March 2011
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