About the Author

Charlie Newton is a Chicago native, a writer known for a global life on the road and extended MIA absences. When he does publish, Newton's heart-pounding, gritty, and witty realism has been a starred-review favorite of the critics and a finalist for the Edgar, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the Macavity, and the International Thriller Writers awards. Newton is the author of Calumet City (Simon & Schuster, 2008), Start Shooting (Doubleday, 2012), and Traitor's Gate (Thomas & Mercer, 2015).

Reviews

"Charlie Newton is the real deal. I'll read anything he writes." --New York Times bestselling author Lee Child"Privateers grabs you by the collar and won't let go until Charlie Newton gives the nod. Rarely have I read a book so absorbing, so sharply written, so filled with action that it thrusts you into the real world and makes you look hard at its beauty and its heartbreak." --Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Get Capone"A spellbinding tale of three strong women fighting to survive in the hunt for a lost treasure in the deadly swamps and jungles of the Corazon Santo, the holy heart of the Caribbean triangle between Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica. Charlie Newton is a wordsmith extraordinaire who writes like a poet." --Todd Merer, author of The Extraditionist"Privateers hits the ground running and builds to hurricane-level intensity. In the midst of this white-knuckle thriller, Newton shows how the West perpetuates many of the third-world evils it claims to want to cure." --Andrew Diamond, award-winning author of Impala"There's a search for gold in the plot of Privateers, but the real gold is Newton's writing. Riffs conjure Hunter Thompson or James Ellroy, but Newton owns them all. Words shimmer off Caribbean waters as the story dodges, feints, and streaks to the next turn." --Kirk Russell, author of Dead Game