Vince DeOrchis
Vince DeOrchis
Vince DeOrchis was born in 1949 in New York City, and raised in Queens before moving to Great Neck, Long Island, as a teenager. His father is a well-known maritime lawyer who continued practicing until he was 87 years old.
Vince went to Fordham College and Fordham University School of Law, and ultimately joined his father’s law firm in Manhattan. He continues to practice maritime law forty years later. He was on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Maritime Law Association, and was an advisor to the U.S. State Department during the negotiations of a new international convention to regulate the carriage of cargo by sea called the Rotterdam Rules. He has also participated as a briefing judge in the Judge John R. Brown National Moot Court Competition involving maritime law students, and was a Sims Distinguished Practitioner and Residence lecturer at Tulane University School of Law in the maritime law department.
He coauthored two books titled Negotiation—An Attorney’s Manual and Inside the Minds: Founding a Law Firm. He lives on Roosevelt Island with his companion, Maria, and enjoys the company of his two children, Vincent S. and Dana, as well as two granddaughters.
Visit vincedeorchis.com to learn more.
Books by Vince DeOrchis
Going to sea as a sailor at age eighteen is not the dream of most college-aged boys, especially those with some privileges in life. Yet for one young man who navigated this path at the insistence of his father, the unlikely experience turned into a wildly unforgettable adventure.
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After bombs decimated their home, seventeen-year-old Nizar and his little sister, Rima, seek to escape the horrors of war-torn Syria. With no family to turn to, their only hope is to reunite with their estranged cousin, Sayid, who lives in the USA. Unknown to them, Sayid has developed covert ties with an extremist group. In Spain, the siblings stow away inside a container on a ship bound for New York. The vessel encounters a ferocious storm and the siblings are exposed to a cargo filled with deadly gas. Nizar and Rima’s dangerous trek entraps them in a nationally televised trial connected to a terrorist who bombed a plane bound for New York.
Joe Barrett, a young and somewhat unconventional lawyer, is unexpectedly drawn into the investigation as he tries to fathom how the two young stowaways were exposed to the sarin gas aboard the containership. With help from Dalia, a quick-witted bartender, he unravels a plot that endangers the lives of those in the New York courtroom involved in sentencing the terrorist.
It’s a fast and silent missile and it threatens a city along the U.S. East Coast. The only sure thing: It comes from North Korea. But where is it now? It’s a deadly puzzle attorney Joe Barrett needs to solve in The Pilot Fish, Vince DeOrchis’ second fast-paced book in his thriller adventure series published by TriMark Press.
After a collision with with a container ship in the English channel reveals a shocking discovery, Joe Barrett is sent to investigate and what he uncovers is the intricate plan of a powerful Korean family involving a never-before-seen device of questionable origins that the dubs The Pilot Fish.
When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack-or a bomb ready to blow up a famous skyline- you take all chances. From the streets of Italy to London and back to the shores of the United States, Barrett plays a game of near-misses, where clues are figured out at the last second, including the most important one of all – locating a device invisible to sonar and radar on one of the most important holiday events of the year. Relying on his new best friends, including allies from the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. and British Navies, he needs to solve the mystery of a threat that seems to come from many possible directions but only one that can mean the difference between saving millions of lives . . . and annihilation.
Is the threat coming from the sky?
Or a place more undetectable?
Reviews for The PilotFish
“[DeOrchis] quickly and expertly guides the reader into his rarified world, painting a picture of the vessels, the offices, the language and the focus on the sea and those who sail it…It’s a fast, compelling, and fun to read book. And bonus: I learned quite a bit along the way.”–Nancy Roberts, When in Doubt, Read!