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By: Rodney Leon

Blue Water Blue

Pages: 398 Ratings: 5.0
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Why are strangers travelling to St Gilberts and aiming for Rodney Leon? What do they think he knows?


St Gilberts in the Indian Ocean, dubbed; ‘The most beautiful tropical island on the planet’ is home to Rodney Leon who, having lived there for all of his 25 going on 26 years, still feels like an outsider. His heritage, inheritance, physical appearance, and occupation, all mark him out as ‘different’.


A chance find and a casual internet enquiry bring a series of ruthless emissaries to St Gilberts who threaten both Rodney and his small circle of friends. What are they looking for and why do they think Rodney knows where it is?

As Rodney and his friends struggle to work out what is happening while dealing with the escalating threats to their safety, they also find themselves confronting the big questions in life; questions to do with wealth, friendship, loyalty, love, and belonging. How they respond to those questions will irrevocably affect, not only their own lives, but that of the whole island as well.

Rodney Leon still enjoys island-life, though he also ventures to countries further afield and without any specific destination once there. Under the old adage, travellers don’t know where they are going and tourists don’t know where they have been. Rodney hopes he falls under the former category. His love for St Gilberts grows with every passing year. It may be a speck of land lost in the vastness of the Indian ocean, but to Rodney it will always be the place to which he belongs and to where he will always return, even if only in his imagination.

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  • KB

    Leon’s first novel is one to savor. From the very start, you are drawn into his idyllic life on a remote tropical island, suspended on an azure sea. Very soon you feel the threat of the incomers who arrive, and you can’t help but ask why they come – to sail so far they must be mad. This question is soon answered but many more line up, in turn, to keep you engrossed in this ripping yarn.
    Crisp narrative, great characters, a fantastic storyline, a twist in the tale, and a surprise ending.
    What more could you want – except another one soon please Mr. Leon

  • Sue Barlow

    Blue Water Blue lives up its promise of an exciting journey into a world of coral sands and hidden caves. The culture of island culture is explored as the protagonist is drawn into the treacherous ambitions of treasure hunters. Written with a pace that sweeps the reader along to its climax, the novel is an enjoyable and easy read.

  • Sue Barlow

    Blue Water Blue lives up its promise of an exciting journey into a world of coral sands and hidden caves. The culture of island culture is explored as the protagonist is drawn into the treacherous ambitions of treasure hunters. Written with a pace that sweeps the reader along to its climax, the novel is an enjoyable and easy read.

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