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The Big Tide Chronicles
by Jerry Buckley
The world has changed in the not-too-distant future, especially after the cataclysmic events of the Big Tide. Follow the adventures of an unconventional group of friends in the Florida Keys. Led by Finn, Nick Cassini, Dr. Kate Sullivan, Tara O’Hara, acting chief of police, Norman James, and a quirky cast of supporting characters. They must defeat a madman intent on taking over Key West.
Read of their exploits in the time of The Big Tide, beginning with Who Killed Toby Ireland? book I, in the series – THE BIG TIDE CHRONICLES.
Without a doubt, if you like Dorsey, Hiaasen, White, and Hall, you will find Who Killed Toby Ireland? your cup of Cuba Libre. Moreover, this fast-paced read, is perfect for the beach or lake, along with it being an excellent and thought-provoking gift for friends and family. Besides being all these things, Who Killed Toby Ireland? is not a one off book. What’s more THE BIG TIDE CHRONICLES story now continues.
Meanwhile, The Adventures from the Big Tide Chronicles Continues
In addition to book I, Who Killed Toby Ireland? I have now published book II in the Big Tide Chronicles, Bone Island Blues, plus book III Mangrove Martini.
Furthermore, book IV in the continuing adventures of Finn, Nick Cassini, Dr. Kate Sullivan, Tara O’Hara, and a cast of misfits and miscreants has a working title of A Smuggler’s Moon. Without a doubt, there will be more books following their adventures. Therefore, please bookmark this site for news.
Lastly, in conclusion, I would love to hear your comments and thoughts on the Big Tide Chronicles, as unquestionably, we all grow through our efforts, our wins, and failures, it’s all part of life’s rich tapestry, as they say.
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The Big Tide Chronicles I
Who Killed Toby Ireland?
by Jerry Buckley
During a six-month period of time in 2024 the world changed. An aquatic blitzkrieg, slowly building over decades, unleashed itself. Furthermore, from the time of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century, on average, sea level had risen a little over a tenth of an inch each year or about one foot per century. In addition to this, throughout the 20th century, the increasing glacier melt in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland hastened that rise.
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The Big Tide Chronicles II
Bone Island
Blues
by Jerry Buckley
In the early 1970s, Charles River Laboratories brought 1,000 rhesus monkeys to the Florida Keys. The facility, housed on two islands, was used to breed monkeys for research purposes globally. Furthermore, rumors ran rampant in the 1980s of genetic experiments being performed on Lois Key. Company attorneys absolutely denied the allegations, but the rumors persisted. In the late 1990s, litigation forced the Big Pharma giant to close its facilities and remove the monkeys from the Keys. Nonetheless, after the Big Tide in 2024, odd reports of strange, man-like creatures plundering abandoned houses began to emerge from the backcountry. Even so, most people wrote it off as an “urban legend.”
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The Big Tide Chronicles III
MANGROVE
MARTINI
by Jerry Buckley
This third installment of THE BIG TIDE CHRONICLES continues to follow Finn and his eccentric group of friends as they face catastrophe from a Cat 5 hurricane while battling an international art thief bent on sabotage and destruction. The Conch Republic, once again is threatened with annihilation. A ghostly seance gives an eerie supernatural warning contained in the words of Marie Leveau, the voodoo priestess of New Orleans. Will Finn and his friends defeat the mastermind intent on their obliteration and withstand the forces of Hurricane Fiona?
Read Mangrove Martini today.
To be released July, 2025
The Big Tide Chronicles IV
A SMUGGLER’S
MOON
by Jerry Buckley
The November sun glistened on the bay that stretch into the Straits of Florida from New Havana on the northern coast of Cuba. The Big Tide had reshaped the islands of the Caribbean with its rising waters. It reduced their land mass and caused the relocation of thousands of people to higher ground. Most of the islands, were themselves the top sections of numerous submarine mountains that stretched across the reef-infested waters of the Caribbean Sea. New Havana maintained its stately ambience through a mix of the surviving Spanish architecture built on high ground and the blend of people who came to Havana for various reasons.
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The Big Tide Chronicles V
TARPON BELLY THUNDER
by Jerry Buckley
The old canal cuts at Tarpon Belly made for good snorkeling. The Big Tide covered most of the concrete foundations that remained of the abandoned shrimp farm facility once located on the small mangrove isles. Finn guided the Wellcraft close to a knot of mangroves that clung to an arm of high ground at the northeast end of the island. Nick tossed the anchor over the rail and played out the rope until it caught and held firm.
They waded toward the exposed ridge that formed one end of the canal cut that ran at an angle to the northwest. Each of them wore gloves and carried a prod stick and net. Finn and Kate went one way along the submerged wall while Nick and Tara went in the opposite direction.
They swam about thirty yards when Kate nudged Finn and pointed to something in the water ahead of them, it seemed to be stuck to the wall.