Minnie McCormack is a fast-paced, action packed, adventure story for women. It is set in the Panhandle of Florida in the late 1960's. The heroine, Minnie, is an oysterman's daughter who lives a simple life on the bayou near of Apalachicola Bay. She is a highly intelligent, courageous and determined girl who does not accept the established role for southern women and strikes out on her own to make her place in the world.
The story begins when Minnie, a newly released prison inmate, incarcerated for accidentally killing a man at her graduation party, is sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Upon her release, she seeks to find a new career. She has a romantic interlude with a Navy flight instructor who introduces her to the world of flying. She takes flying lessons at a small flight school in rural Alabama. Upon completion of her training, the unscrupulous operator of the flight school offers her a job flying counterfeit Levis into Cuba. She accepts and unwittingly becomes part of a scheme to fly smuggle drug money to Cuba and cocaine back into the US.
Trouble begins when she is discovered by the US Coast Guard as she leaves Cuba. She escapes capture by trusting a member of the smuggling cartel who is positioned in the Florida Keys to keep her from being caught until she fulfills the needs of the cartel. She is taken to a luxurious yacht in the mangroves where she learns the is an unwitting pawn in the repayment of six million dollars of drug money and the smuggling of cocaine back to the US. During the night, men drug her and rape her. She escapes the next morning but not before she kills the two men who violated her.
Having discovered the truth about her flying job, and the six million dollars stashed in the flight school, she constructs a plan to have her revenge on the rest of the men who used her and keep the money for her own purposes. With the help of a high school friend, a retuned Viet Nam veteran, and a strong determined spirit, she succeeds.
Her character demonstrates, compassion and sensitivity and an iron-willed determination fashioned in the mores of old school justice of her Scottish heritage. She faces her fears and danger with courage and determination. Her character can be compared to other heroines such as Katness Everdeen, The Hunger Games and Lisbeth Salander, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
