Rebel Island (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Tres Navarre: recently retired detective; English professor.
• Garrett Navarre: Tres's older brother; an amputee.
• Maia Lee: criminal lawyer on maternity leave; newlywed who is eight and a half months pregnant.
• Chris Stowall: Rebel Island Hotel manager.
• Alex Huff: Garrett's friend born on Rebel Island; owns the Rebel Island Hotel.
• Jesse Longoria: ruthless U.S. Marshall.
• Benjamin Lindy: retired criminal lawyer.
• Lane Sanford: young woman running away from a bad marriage.
• Jose: Add a description of this character.
• Chase: A unruly teenager.
• Peter Brazos: Corpus Christi District Attorney.
• Mr. Eli: Rebel Island Hotel's former owner.
• Calavera: notorious South Texas assassin who kills with explosives.
• Markie: Another teen.
• Rachel Brazos: Peter's wife.
• Imelda

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• “Hey, little bro, you can't blame me for that. Is there any place in Texas where you don't stumble across some cop you've pissed off?”

  Garrett Navarre

• “You don't argue with a no-legged man who wants a margarita.”

  Tres Navarre

• “At least Jesse Longoria was having a worse vacation than I was. He'd been shot once at close range.”

  Tres Navarre

• “With a homicide magnet like you? A girl can't help but have a good time.”

  Maia Lee

• “A man's better off without his baggage.”

  Mr. Eli

• “Margarita of the gods. No salt. Cuervo white. Mexician triple sec. My brother disagrees with me about every ingredient. Thinks I'm a damn cretin.”

  Garrett Navarre

• “Almost always, there was something interesting to be found in anyone's personal space. . . I called it the jalapeno factor: You had to have that little slice of spice on the nacho.”

  Tres Navarre

• “Being a witness, a victim, a participant in some terrible event seems to give you some of the qualities of a priest confessor. Instead of people comforting you, people look to you for comfort and understanding, as if you, by virtue of your trials, have gained some insight the rest of the world sorely needs. A capacity to endure.”

  Tres Navarre

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• “Shit, Garrett. You couldn’t even start to guess.” “That stuff about Calavera. If you had anything to do with that—I mean, you would tell me, right?” Alex’s expression was hard to read—fear, maybe even shame. “You remember Mr. Eli’s

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• didn’t ask if Imelda and Jose were in the country illegally. In South Texas, she’d learned, that was like asking someone what denomination of Christian they were. It hardly mattered.

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Preceded by Mission Road.

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1. Rick Riordan (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Riordan, Rick
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery › Hard-Boiled

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