Joe Barrett

After bombs decimated their home, seventeen year old Nizar and his little sister, Rima, seek to escape the horrors of war-torn Syria. With no family to turn to, their only hope is to reunite with their estranged cousin, Sayid, who lives in the USA. Unknown to them, Sayid has developed covert ties with an extremist group. In Spain, the siblings stow away inside a container on a ship bound for New York. The vessel encounters a ferocious storm and the siblings are exposed to a cargo filled with deadly gas. Nizar and Rima's dangerous trek entraps them in a nationally televised trial connected to a terrorist who bombed a plane bound for New York. Joe Barrett, a young and somewhat unconventional lawyer, is unexpectedly drawn into the investigation as he tries to fathom how the two young stowaways were exposed to the sarin gas aboard the containership. With help from Dalia, a quick-witted bartender, he unravels a plot that endanger the lives of those in the New York courtroom involved in sentencing the terrorist.

It's a fast and silent sub and it threatens a city along the U.S. East Coast. The only sure thing: It comes from North Korea. But where is it now? It's a deadly puzzle attorney Joe Barrett needs to solve in The Pilot Fish. This is Vince DeOrchis's second fast-paced book in his thriller adventure series. After a collision with a container ship in the English channel reveals a shocking discovery, Joe Barrett is sent to investigate and what he uncovers is the intricate plan of a powerful Korean family involving a never-before-seen device of questionable origins that is dubbed The Pilot Fish. When you're looking for a needle in a haystack-or a nuclear bomb ready to blow up a famous skyline- you take all chances. From the streets of Italy to London and back to the shores of the United States, Barrett plays a game of near-misses, where clues are figured out at the last second, including the most important one of all - locating a device invisible to sonar and radar on one of the biggest holiday events of the year. Relying on his new best friends, including allies from the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. and British Navies, he needs to solve the mystery of a threat that seems to come from many possible directions but only one that can mean the difference between saving millions of lives . . . and annihilation. Is the threat coming from the sky? Or a place more undetectable?

What happens when everyone involved in a multi-million dollar international shipment of a rare earth mineral decides to cheat and scam the next guy down the line? They end up dead, missing, or in jail. A cargo ship and all its crew are blown out of the water off the coast of Venezuela, leaving only a mangy dog and a scheming vessel's officer floating in a damaged raft. They are picked up by a cruise ship on which Joe Barrett, the international maritime lawyer, and his wife are spending their honeymoon. The incident initiates a worldwide investigation of a dirty mine in northern Brazil to a ruthless company in Luxembourg, from the run- down quarters of a failing steamship company in Iskenderun, to the glass towers of the insurance industry in London City. At the center of the storm is Joe Barrett and his legal team in midtown New York, trying to follow the money and figure out how a large cryptocurrency account ended up inside a dog collar. Fast, fun, and exciting, with a lifetime supply of bad guys.