Over 73 million sharks are killed every year for their fins. This action & adventure novel thrillingly reveals why this abominable practice is going on. FINSOUP is a tale of the real international corruption that threatens the existence of a large number of species of sharks. Charlie Blankenship has never heard of shark finning, but a chance meeting and a trip to Costa Rica change all that. His encounters with the Taiwanese mafia and a beautiful French environmentalist may lead to his death, but why expect anything else in Paradise?