Caribbean authors are really ramping up the quality of their books and have been putting out impressive works. One of the most interesting and enjoyable books we have had the privilege to review is “The Relocators” written by Jamaican, and Fort Lauderdale resident, E. Claudius Thompson, who has been writing for a number of years, and, in fact, has other novels to his credit.

This book published by Publish America is an intriguing and well written mystery, despite a few editorial flaws. Notwithstanding, Thompson has succeeded in writing a very suspenseful story that keeps the reader glued to the book, anxious to reach the plot’s conclusion. With keen interest we follow the story of the main character, Canadian John Thompson, as he tries to survive a plot spawned by a criminal organization to eliminate him, as he hides in rural Jamaica.

Anderson is a former member of an organized crime unit that fronts as the Phoenix Contracting Company, located in Toronto, Canada. This company is purported to be one that recruits professional consultants to solve the problems of clients located internationally. The company’s policy is to recruit people who are loners, not having relatives, close friends or romantic relationships. The strange thing is that when these so-called consultants are sent out on an assignment, they never return to Canada. When questions are asked about their whereabouts, the company’s standing explanation is that they have been relocated.

However, Anderson gets wind of the real operations of the company, and realizes that the consultants disappear after their respective assignments, because they are murdered. This makes him determined to leave the company, and he decides to do this after being sent on an assignment to assassinate a leading member of the Jamaican government. On his way to Jamaica, Anderson meets a female Jamaican police superintendent whom he befriends, and confides his predicament. She places him in a secure hiding place, while she and a clean cop battles, with members of the company, a deadly Jamaican gang and a set of corrupt cops. Intent on bringing down the Phoenix Contracting Company, the good guys encounter several skirmishes, some tragic, with the company’s paid execution goons. The story builds up to a very exciting conclusion, giving the reader the impression of having been in the center of an exciting journey all over Jamaica, and Canada as the plot unfolds.

All-in-all, this is a very good suspenseful thriller written by Thompson, who incidentally hails from Woodhall, Clarendon, up to recently a relatively unknown district, now famous as the birthplace of Jamaica’s current prime minister.

Copies of “The Relocators” are available at www.publishamerica.com