About the Author
Niles Major spent years by the water, first as a lifeguard, then as a sailor chasing wind past the edges of the map. The sea taught him to pay attention: to silence, to danger, to the signs that come before a storm. He didn’t start writing until his forties. Now, his work leans into the places memory and imagination meet, where every character has a past, and every horizon holds something just out of view. He writes to explore how the past lingers in the present.
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Narragansett Wild tells the story of Rook Williams, a rich-kid sailor turned biker, a draft dodger with a sharp mind and a hunger for infamy. He hits URI and Narragansett Pier in the late 1960s chasing trouble and finds it in Jimmy Chin, a lifeguard, a leader of men, a drug smuggler with zero inhibitions, and the most popular guy in town.
With a flourishing drug empire, Jimmy recruits Rook. He is unknown, unconnected, and a born risk-taker, fitting in like a loaded chamber. He joins the crew, a rogue’s gallery with names like The Jet Man and Slippery. Operating between the drug world and the counterculture, they build something vast, sharp, and unapologetically brazen. There is no peace and love here. They are chasing social cachet and power.
As the smuggling expands, the stakes get higher. At the height of his influence, Jimmy heads to Florida to move serious weight for Meyer Lansky’s Jewish Mafia. The operation goes global, and soon they are supplying half the United States with reefer.
Jimmy gets busted. When he gets out, he is hungry and looking to score again.
A “mystery ship” appears off Jamestown. Soon after, the Dorchester caper, a Rhode Island sting, explodes into the biggest drug bust in U.S. history.
Men die. Jimmy disappears becoming a fugitive from justice. Rook walks away, but not unscathed.
Inspired by true events, Narragansett Wild is a gritty, fast-moving crime saga about freedom, rebellion, and the price of chasing legend. No apologies. No redemption. Just the untamed truth.