Alex Rutledge, freelance and part-time Key West crime scene photographer, awakes to his first day off in months.
He lives in the Lower Keys, Florida..
He co-wrote the Buffett hits "Fins" and "Cuban Crimes of Passion." He is the author of Gumbo Limbo, Bone Island Mambo, and other Alex Rutledge mysteries.
About the Author: Tom Corcoran has been a bartender, disc jockey, screenwriter, Navy officer and journalist.
By calling in favors from a crew of Key West characters, stepping aside of law enforcement, and traveling to New Orleans in an attempt to help his friend, Rutledge will fall deep into a mysterious range war, a fight for the profits from a twenty-year-old smuggling deal.
An overnight fire and a drive-by shooting the next morning amplify the strangeness and danger.
A high-noon murder in the tourist district, the ransacked apartment of a local bartender, and the chance encounter of Abby Womack, Cahill\'s ex-mistress, combine to convince Alex that Zach Cahill\'s disappearance may be linked to all of these events.
The day continues downhill.
When Alex arrives at the bar, eight minutes later, Cahill is gone.
Zack demands that Rutledge join him for a celebratory beer. m., drunk in Sloppy Joe\'s.
His old navy buddy, Zack Cahill, now a successful Chicago banker, is in town and, at 8: 00 a.
Everything\'s okay until his phone rings.
Late August, the off-season, the dog days.
Alex Rutledge, freelance and part-time Key West crime scene photographer, awakes to his first day off in months
