Chip Bell has 11 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator. The most-rated is Come Monday: A Jake Sullivan Novel.
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Summary
When a retired United States Senator's passion for deep-sea treasure hunting off the coast of Palm Beach leads to murder, Jake Sullivan, chief prosecutor for the Justice Department in Miami, thinks he has an open and shut case: the DNA of the man pulled out of the warm waters near the ill-fated yacht matches blood found on the deck. But life is never so simple for Jake. In a rush of political maneuvering, Jake's suspect is whisked away by the State Department under a claim of diplomatic immunity. The mystery man is no simple treasure thief; he is a covert operator for the Mossad, Israel's elite intelligence agency. But Jake and his investigator, Mike Lang, are no less committed to solving the murders of Senator Daniel Simmons and his wife. Their instincts are piqued when information leads them to the writings of an ancient Hebrew mystic and the lore behind an iconic relic of Medieval Spain lost in 1715 when a hurricane wrecked a Spanish treasure fleet off the Florida coast. But those findings are less bizarre than their uncovering of an Israeli army faction intent on realizing a dream of a "Greater Israel". Discovering the identity of the mysterious leader of "The Group of 40" becomes more than a quest to solve a murder investigation. Jake and Mike hope to prevent South Florida from becoming a war zone, and the fuse that could light the powder keg that is the Middle East.
©2014 Chip Bell (P)2019 Chip Bell
Havana Daydreamin'
Summary
It's the summer of 1958, and Meyer Lansky, the mob's accountant, is barely a warm breeze away from seeing the crown jewel of his gambling empire sparkling on the ocean: Havana, the Monte Carlo of the Caribbean. Then, Castro came down from the mountains, armed and on a mission. Batista's days were numbered and so was his patronage of Lansky and his cronies. It is said that Lansky moved hundreds of millions of dollars out of Cuba. But, when he died in 1983, his estate was reported to be worth only 60,000 dollars in cash. What happened to the money? With the ratification of the treaty between the US and Cuba, President Jordan Fletcher is encouraging American entrepreneurship on the island. Enter the mob...with a revived dream of government-sanctioned criminal enterprise. Two competing factions are vying to become the new Havana mob and each knows the key to success is finding Lansky's missing millions. One faction, led by the mysterious Le Lisiado, is on the offensive: Paula Cortez, President Fletcher's liaison to the new Cuban government, is kidnapped. When Mike Lang learns of the kidnapping, he rushes to Havana to save the woman he loves. Threatening Paula's death, Le Lisiado blackmails Mike into finding the lost Lansky millions. Desperate for help, Mike calls upon his best friend, Jake Sullivan. Aided by a former Lansky employee, Silvio Caroselli, and Manuel Ortega, the new chief of Havana Police, Mike and Jake track clues through a maze of leads, racing to find the treasure and save Paula's life. Chip Bell's third novel takes the listener on a twisted treasure hunt that begins in 1950s Havana and leads to an ending that no one, especially Jake and Mike, could have thought possible.
©2018 Chip Bell (P)2019 Chip Bell
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Summary
The South Beach Sadist is dead.... Jake had seen to that. But in two weeks, Miami has two new victims, each butchered and their bodies marked with the sign of the Sadist...a sign never revealed to the public. As cryptic clues, and the promise of a third victim, begin to arrive in his office, Jake Sullivan, chief prosecutor for the Justice Department in Miami, and Mike Lang, his investigator and best friend, are once again hunting a madman. As the trail leads to a rogue DEA agent, Jake and Mike close in on the killer, not realizing that saving victim three means saving one of their own.
©2015 Chip Bell (P)2020 Chip Bell
Jamaica Mistaica
Summary
A Jamaican drug dealer surrenders to authorities after coming ashore in the Florida Keys and tries to bargain for his safety with a fantastic tale of lost pirate treasure and its connection to the Shower Posse drug cartel, the CIA, and more. When a brazen daylight attempt on the dealer’s life leaves American citizens dead on the streets of Miami, President Jordan Fletcher asks Jake Sullivan, chief federal prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Miami office, and his investigator and best friend, Mike Lang, to join a special DEA task force and go to Jamaica to investigate. Joining DEA Special Agent Mack Owens, Jake and Mike head to the Island of Wood and Water and find themselves in the midst of a 300-year-old legend of piracy, corruption, calamity, and death...with only the solution to an ancient map keeping them from their own. Travel once more with Jake and Mike into the beautiful but dangerous Caribbean where the ghosts of pirates beckon and adventure awaits.
©2015 Chip Bell (P)2020 Chip Bell
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About
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“Everything’s changed.” So says Jake Sullivan as he recalls his recent past. Dealing with private and professional turmoil, Jake, and his best friend Mike Lang find themselves on the hunt in Key West, trying to unravel an assassination plot in this tropical paradise. Only here could a high school reunion, a vice president elect, and thousands of Parrotheads attending a Meeting of the Minds, all play a part in their attempts to take down an evil mastermind. And only at the final confrontation will Jake discover just how treacherous change has become.
©2018 Chip Bell (P)2021 Chip Bell
One Particular Harbour
Summary
A working vacation in the Virgin Islands...what could be better? But when you are Jake Sullivan, things are never as they seem, and a mysterious nighttime meeting leads to a nightmare of a morning. Arrested for the murder of a prominent businessman, Jake finds himself the object of a conspiracy to take away everything he has as one piece of evidence after another builds the case against him. Jake's best friend, Mike Lang, comes to his aid and his investigation reveals that Jake is to be transferred to an island prison from which there will be no return. Mike arranges an escape with the help of some island characters found only in the southern latitudes. Now fugitives, Jake and Mike follow clues from island to island pursued by corrupt police and politicians and an international oil cabal and its team of hitmen, as they race to find answers as to who is framing Jake and why. This fifth novel by Chip Bell takes the listener on a whirlwind voyage through this island paradise, always heading toward that one particular harbor where Jake's past and present come together to seal his fate.
©2014 Chip Bell (P)2020 Chip Bell
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
Summary
It is the end of June, and President Jordan Fletcher has just negotiated a historical treaty with Cuba, and its signing will be held at the end of October in Miami. Because of Fletcher's past relationship with him in the Benjamin Matthews matter, he has asked Jake Sullivan to coordinate the treaty-signing ceremony. Just as Jake and his investigator and close friend, Mike Lang, begin their job, they receive the astounding news that Benjamin Matthews has died in prison of a heart attack and at the same time learning that an assassination plot has been hatched against the president and Raul and Fidel Castro. Working with a threat analysis expert from the Secret Service, Jonathan Clark and Paula Cortez, a specialist in Cuban affairs from the FBI and who appears to be more than just a former colleague of Mike Lang, Jake sets about trying to diffuse the plot by discovering the identity of a mysterious assassin known only as "The Agent", employed by an even more secret organization, The Birth of New Madrid. As the summer months move by, with the assassin still on the loose, the tension builds at Jake's office, just as tension builds out on the open water as a very active hurricane season is underway. Worrying about Mother Nature and the plot at hand, Jake and his team finally come face-to-face with their mysterious assassin and soon come to realize he is only part of a much greater threat. Racing to save the treaty signing and the lives of the president and the Castro brothers, this second novel by Chip Bell heads to an explosive finish where Jake discovers the true nature of the danger they face and finds himself in one final battle - a battle for his life and the lives of his family now that he realizes the ultimate truth that the target, all along, was him.
©2011 Chip Bell (P)2019 Chip Bell
Fins
Summary
Jake Sullivan has just returned from a life-and-death struggle in Mexico and still faces an ongoing battle with Group 45. He soon finds himself in a confrontation with a late-night assailant, the descendent of a minor historical figure of the 19th century, who provides Jake with an amazing tale and a strange drawing that may hold the key to solving a murder clouded by history and finding the long-lost City of Gold. Once again, Jake and Mike embark on an adventure, aided by a knowledgeable young intern from the Federal Institute of Native Studies, and, as usual, the warning sign circling slowly on the surface of the water does not even begin to represent the dangers and discoveries to be found far below.
©2018 Chip Bell (P)2021 Chip Bell
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Summary
A frantic late-night phone call from his estranged wife, Linda, brings Jake Sullivan back to his hometown in Western Pennsylvania. Jake's childhood friend and law school classmate Simon Branson is about to be appointed a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania when his wife is brutally murdered and he is charged with the crime. Turning to Jake for help, Branson pleads his innocence and claims to be the victim of a political plot to wreck his judicial appointment. Using his reputation and the friendship his investigator, Mike Lang, has with the Pittsburgh special agent in charge of the FBI, Jake takes on his friend's case, discovering a political plot does exist...one that leads to an unbelievable conclusion.
©2018 Chip Bell (P)2020 Chip Bell
He Went to Paris
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Simon Branson is on the run, and Jake Sullivan and Mike Lang head to Paris to track down a killer. Charged by President Fletcher with verifying the incredible secrets found in the Group 45 documents, they are moving ever closer to finding the truth about the package. Surviving a murderous attack in the City of Light, they follow another clue to the Bavarian Alps, where the scattered remains of Group 45 are coalescing around a neofascist proclaiming himself the savior of Western civilization. Trying to stay a step ahead of their enemies and aided by a Nazi physicist’s granddaughter, they finally find what they are looking for...the solution to the enigma of the package, in the unlikeliest of locations, the Keahlstein Haus itself - the “Eagle’s Nest” of Adolf Hitler.
©2016 Chip Bell (P)2020 Chip Bell
Come Monday: A Jake Sullivan Novel
Summary
Trouble in Margaritaville... Jake Sullivan had everything - his dream job as the chief prosecuting attorney in the Miami Office of the Justice Department, a loving family, and good friends. Many would describe him as a bulldog of a man with a strong moral streak. No one would have predicted what was about to come. When Jake Sullivan takes on a high-profile case, he naturally anticipates both a moral and a professional victory. But, when his drinking and obsession with the horrific nature of the crimes involved cloud his judgement, the case is thrown out of court and a cold-blooded killer goes free. Shattered and mired in self-pity, Jake withdraws from his family and takes off to Key West where he builds a small practice fighting marine insurance companies. One night, still haunted by his failures, Jake stumbles upon a covert meeting between Attorney General Benjamin Matthews, the man who fired him, and the serial killer he let go free. What follows is Jake’s fight for redemption and his life as he unravels a Machiavellian plot that leads from Key West to the White House. This is the first book in the Jake Sullivan Series.
©2009, 2011 Chip Bell (P)2019 Chip Bell