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Monahan is a burned out ex-soldier who thinks he has put the ways of war and the burdens of duty behind him, in exchange for a tumbledown charter boat business and a comforting stream of whiskey. But when a revolutionary zealot manages to stow away aboard Monahan’s boat and get himself murdered there, Monahan is dragged back into a horrid place from that warrior past, and propelled into the heart of a mystery. 

Monahan struggles to maintain the vestiges of his honor, to do right by the murdered man’s daughter, and to figure out his part in a scheme to run guns to a group of desperate Central American insurgents. But Monahan doesn’t really know the play and he’s probably wrong about the players: Hector Ruiz might or might not be a doomed rebel true believer. Leo Braswell, professional spook, could be an ally or a deadly nemesis. Elena Ruiz is something more powerful and dangerous than the broken schoolgirl her father describes. And Fat Benny Eltham, a ruthless Jamaican crime lord and sweetly devoted family man, just might wind up as Monahan’s father-in-law.

Delivering the guns is the least of Monahan’s worries. He’s hoping for redemption, but he had better figure out just whom he’s really working for – before it kills him.

The Ugliest of Things is a hard-boiled mystery and a tough-guy adventure of a different sort.