Justice doesn’t stop at blue water.
At night, the ocean bleeds.
By morning, sharks wash up without their fins.
And a village that once lived in harmony with the sea now looks the other way.
Leilani is a champion freediver and marine biologist, now working for the Ocean Enforcement Agency. Sent to the islands of Samoa, she expects illegal fishing. What she uncovers is a silent, industrial-scale slaughter unfolding beyond pristine coral reefs.
Offshore, foreign longliners take shark after shark until dawn on miles of line. Fins vanish into international markets. Onshore, money floods into quiet villages, eroding tradition and binding locals into a trade with no way out.
Working with village chiefs, navigating shifting allegiances and her own connection to the country, Leilani races to expose a black market fed by insatiable global demand. But every dive draws attention. Every question tightens the net.
Because this industry protects itself, and doesn’t leave witnesses.
With cyclone season approaching, can Leilani expose the operation before she becomes the
next victim of the nylon lines?
South Pacific Cut is an international crime thriller set in the South Pacific. A place where predators hunt above and below the surface.
The hooks are baited with tuna heads.
The lines are set.
Now, all they have to do is wait.