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TASHTEGO
TASHTEGO
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Daggoo, Queequeg and Tashtego. The three harpooners from Melville's classic Moby Dick. It is 1984 and Royal St. Vincent, a muscle car engineer from General Motors, hits the bottle after a bitter divorce. When the bottle is empty, he wakes up in Islemarada Florida and ready to start a new life. He buys the sixty foot sports fishing boat, the Makaira, and settles into his new career as a happy deep sea sports fishing captain surrounded by his colorful friends in the Florida Keys.
One day the unthinkable happens. He is approached by the more than beautiful girl, Scotty, from Miami who wants to charter a trip. Suspicious of her mysterious friends, and against his better judgment, he takes the trip and his life is never the same again.
It is the wild mid-eighties of coccain cowboys and Scarface in South Florida and drugs run rampant. Forced to work for a drug cartel, St. Vincent is persuaded to hide drugs in his offshore catch until he is eventually discovered by the local undercover DEA agent. Torn apart by the love of his daughter in Michigan, who is threatened by the cartel, and pressure from the Federal drug agency, he is warned by his Haitan recluse soothsayer friend John, who lives in the Florida swamps, that Tashtego is the notorius head of the snake that controls the bloody drug cartel.
From Key West to the Turks and Cacaos Islands, Cuba, Columbia, Bolivia and against the backdrop of the furious volcanic eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz in 1985, St. Vincent and his chosen friends must find the identity of Tashtego and free St. Vincent from the clutches of the mysterious drug lord.
Based loosly on Moby Dick and the Heart of Darkness, Tashtego is introduced by the thoughts of a 2,000 pound Blue Marlin while she fights for her life against man and nature. Based largly on deep sea sports fishing in the Florda Keys, the real mystery of the book is who is Tashtego and the ultimate thrilling answer will surprise the reader.
One day the unthinkable happens. He is approached by the more than beautiful girl, Scotty, from Miami who wants to charter a trip. Suspicious of her mysterious friends, and against his better judgment, he takes the trip and his life is never the same again.
It is the wild mid-eighties of coccain cowboys and Scarface in South Florida and drugs run rampant. Forced to work for a drug cartel, St. Vincent is persuaded to hide drugs in his offshore catch until he is eventually discovered by the local undercover DEA agent. Torn apart by the love of his daughter in Michigan, who is threatened by the cartel, and pressure from the Federal drug agency, he is warned by his Haitan recluse soothsayer friend John, who lives in the Florida swamps, that Tashtego is the notorius head of the snake that controls the bloody drug cartel.
From Key West to the Turks and Cacaos Islands, Cuba, Columbia, Bolivia and against the backdrop of the furious volcanic eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz in 1985, St. Vincent and his chosen friends must find the identity of Tashtego and free St. Vincent from the clutches of the mysterious drug lord.
Based loosly on Moby Dick and the Heart of Darkness, Tashtego is introduced by the thoughts of a 2,000 pound Blue Marlin while she fights for her life against man and nature. Based largly on deep sea sports fishing in the Florda Keys, the real mystery of the book is who is Tashtego and the ultimate thrilling answer will surprise the reader.
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