Alistair MacLean's Golden Girl

Description for ALISTAIR MACLEAN'S GOLDEN GIRL by Simon Gandolfi:

THEY WANT HIM DEAD-THIRTEEN YEARS OLD,BEARER OF A LETHAL SECRET

A plane crashes, carrying a cargo of cocaine-the pilot dead, no witnesses, except a boy fishing for lobster. The boy buries the cocaine, terror keeps him silent. So begins Simon Gandolfi's exceptional thriller.

Set in the Caribbean, WHITE SANDS is full of extraordinary characters:  Jacket Bride, the thirteen-year-old boy with a fantastic dream in his heart, and a lethal secret in his head. Skelley, the island police chief with an implacable loathing for drug runners. Charity, the formidable schoolteacher. And ex-British intelligence agent Trent, who leaves his catamaran GOLDEN GIRL to help in an operation where one person alone holds the key: a child with an adult secret, hunted for his life.