Tequila Vikings

To get the life Doyle Murphy had always wanted, all he had to do was get through his enlistment… ...and survive the cartel. Like the Norse berserkers of old, Murphy was not above getting drunk and fighting an adversary naked on occasion. That, along with the notoriety he and his men gained during their boozy forays into Tijuana, is how he became known as one of the USS Belleau Wood’s Tequila Vikings.But then he met Hannah Baxter, an Australian surf gypsy with a penchant for the ocean, reggae, and wanton pacifism. Smitten with his new love and tired of bar-brawling his way through seedy Third World red light districts, Murphy enthusiastically decides to hang up his gloves and turn over a new leaf.After just one final trip south of the border with his shipmates.When his penchant for blurring the line between fun and felony finally goes bad, Murphy lands an already fragile young sailor on the wrong sign of a corrupt cartel cop. To save him, Doyle risks losing Hannah, earning a long prison sentence in a Mexican prison, or meeting a gruesome end at the hands of a notoriously vicious underworld sadist.With a narrative voice falling somewhere between Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, and packed with equal parts heartbreak and hilarity, Tequila Vikings is a provocative, if often raw, insight into the triumphs and tragedies of military service.