Book Review: Scout's Honor

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May 1

Scout's Honor

by John McNellis

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense / Historical

ISBN: 9781736352540

Print Length: 332 pages

Reviewed by Lindsay Crandall

At 19 years old, all Eddie Kawadsky can think about is earning enough money to put himself through college and achieving his dream of entering the Naval Flight academy.

After losing his father to the Vietnam War and fleeing his mother's home, Eddie starts living in his van, working day and night to earn the money he needs for tuition. Both ambitious and naïve, Eddie is convinced by his childhood friend Roy to smuggle 50 kilos of Colombian cocaine across the border into the states. Roy convinces Eddie with money and the guarantee that "this is two hundred percent safe" thanks to his partner, a customs inspector who has cracked the guard rotation code at the border.

What Eddie doesn't know is that Roy is planning on stealing the 50 kilos and letting Eddie take the fall. Both boys make it to Mexico, but they don't both make it back across the border. Roy is taken to La Mesa, one of Mexico's deadliest prisons, where he spends the next seventeen years. But Eddie, fleeing a deadly shootout, vanishes with the cocaine.