Currents of Deceit

By RonaldPerkins

Mystery & Thrillers

Language: English Not Rated (NR)

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On April 20, 2010 the infamous BP oil rig exploded spillingmillions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Images of iridescent oilslicks dominated national and international news for weeks. However, suchvisible spills are not the only threat to our oceans. Marine scientistsconducting research on an isolated Caribbean island inadvertently interferewith the ambitious plans of an unscrupulous waste management company incollusion with a corrupt island government. Deception, arrests, expulsion, andmurder intertwine before natural forces trigger an environmental disaster withfar-reaching consequences that could impact the marine ecosystem for decades tocome. Could such a disaster actually happen? Perhaps it already has.

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Reviewed by Charline Ratcliff for RebeccasReads (11/11)

Recently I was asked to review “Currents of Deceit” by author Ronald Perkins. After reading the provided synopsis I immediately agreed as “Currents of Deceit” sounded like it would be a good book to say the least. When my copy arrived I scanned the front and back before sitting down with it a day or so later.
The premise of “Currents of Deceit” is as follows: Scott Simmons, a marine biologist who hails from a small town in Indiana now works with the Florida Fisheries Commissions and lives in Key West. Once a week Scott visits the local fish market to examine the freshly caught ocean fish looking for harmful parasites or anything else that might cause these fish to be unfit for human consumption. The vendors are never happy to see Scott because they know if he finds any sort of contamination he has the legal authority to stop their sales.
Linda Stevens, a marine biochemist and Scott’s girlfriend decides to run some tests on Scott’s latest samples and look for POPs: Persistent Organic Pollutants. Neither of them expects her to find anything; they both know she’s just killing time while waiting for Scott to finish his own tests. However, when her tests are done the results are…sobering. Linda has definitely found high concentrations of PCBs in Scott’s deep water fish samples. PCBs are polychlorinated biphenyls; things like pesticides that don’t degrade quickly and don’t stay in one area. Needless to say both Scott and Linda are horrified by her discovery and they quickly work on finding experts to verify their findings and help them figure out what they need to do from this point.
I’m not going to give away any more of the book; suffice it to say that “Currents of Deceit” is a great book and well worth reading. While “Currents of Deceit” is a fictional story, in today’s world of seemingly endless oil and other contaminant spills, this book hits home hard.
Kudos to Perkins for a fast-paced, well-written and interesting book. The plot / storyline is realistic; the characters are believable and the message contained within “Currents of Deceit” is one that we all need to hear.