The Guaviare Disaster

About the Book

Bill Randolph, is on his last assignment as field representative for the Senate Oversight Committee for the CIA. At the age of forty-three, he is ready to retire.

Monique, his lovely young wife, is eagerly looking forward to his retirement and to their plans to go sailing on their new yacht. However, their plans fall apart when Bill is called upon to serve his country again in one emergency after another.

Monique, out of loneliness and disappointment, accepts an invitation from friends to join them on a skiing trip to Chile. Their private jet crashes into the Guaviare River in the Colombian jungle.

Bill is excused from his assignment in Iran, travels to Colombia, locates his wife, and rescues her from the clutches of drug lords.

Getting back to their home in Ft. Lauderdale, they set sail on their newly commissioned ketch for the Virgin Islands. While in the islands they encounter a hurricane and rescue shipwrecked sailors. Leaving Eagle their Ketch in Charlotte Amalie they have to rush back home to Ft. Lauderdale and then fly to Washington for a meeting with the President. 

About the Author

Will Peters was born in Berlin in 1934, where he lived until he emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1954. While trying his hand at many different endeavors, from dishwasher to roofer, he learned enough English to start his own business in 1956. In Canada he married his wife, Lorraine, and in 1961 they moved to Miami to start a water-oriented business. Will’s interest was always in or on the water, like sailing and diving.

A decade later they decided to sell all they owned, buy a sailboat and retire while they were young enough to enjoy it all. After a year they found their thirty-footer too small to live on comfortably and purchased a fifty-seven foot ketch. Sailing and diving in the Caribbean, and partially retired at a very early age, they met many adventurers like themselves and also many very wealthy business people who admired their seamanship and lifestyle. This brought Will and his wife their first offer as Captain and Mate of a motor yacht. During the ensuing years Will captained several large motor yachts, a charter sailing vessel and a school ship. On one of his voyages he was declared missing in the North Atlantic in a snowstorm with all hands on board by the Canadian Coast Guard, and even encountered a mutiny on another one of his voyages.

As master of these different vessels, his travels took him through all the Great Lakes to Nova Scotia and into the Caribbean; and with the help of daily logs, Will gathered ideas and characters for his novels. All names of his characters have been changed, and this novel is a mixture of truth and invention.