Jim Doramus

Exhibit A — The Manuscript

The Book

At Cap-Haïtien airport, a private jet lands with a duffel holding eight million in cash and coded notebooks unlocking forty million more in Bitcoin — rare-earth smuggling proceeds, and a death sentence for anyone who touches it. Gunmen from a local syndicate have been tipped off; they turn the tarmac into a massacre. In the chaos, baggage handler Victor Justin makes a split-second decision that will get his family killed or set them free. He seizes the blood-spattered bag and runs.

Victor flees by small boat with his daughter, Jacque, and his teenage niece, Mirlande. He doesn’t survive the crossing. The women — unwitting heirs to his theft — wreck on an Eleuthera reef and wash up half-dead on a pink sand beach, clutching a bag worth more than their lives. Jefferson Banister — a billionaire developer with more money than purpose — stumbles onto them on a morning run down the beach. He should call the police. Instead, he shelters the women, covers their tracks, and makes himself a target to both cartels.

The field narrows as the chase runs from Haiti through the Bahamas to Florida’s Gulf Coast. Gwo Fantôm — a warlord whose reputation for supernatural cruelty cloaks a cold, calculating predator — eliminates the Japanese hunters and relentlessly stalks Jefferson, Jacque, and Mirlande. Survival, they discover, demands becoming as ruthless as the man hunting them. Some debts can only be settled in blood.

For readers of Don Winslow's Savages and Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.

Exhibit B — The Author

Jim Doramus has spent a lifetime with people who take big risks, fight to win, and sometimes step over the lines. A trial lawyer who argued before the United States Supreme Court, he taught litigation at Vanderbilt University Law School, built and sold a behavioral health company, and now serves as president of a boutique hotel on Eleuthera, in the out-island Bahamas, where he has lived part of every year for more than twenty-five years.

He writes crime fiction drawn from both halves of that life: the machinery of American criminal justice, and the beautiful, closed-mouthed world of a small Caribbean island. When he isn’t writing, he can be found fishing offshore in a Boston Whaler, on a tennis court, or walking the pink sand beach where this story is set. He divides his time between Nashville, Tennessee, and Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera.

Blood Cache is his first novel. He is currently seeking representation.

The Book

Jim Doramus

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