Tashtego

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 in Detroit, hits the bottle after a bitter divorce. When the bottle is finally empty, he wakes up in Islemorada 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 and 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 coccaine cowboys and Scarface in South Florida and drugs run rampant. Forced to work for a drug cartel, St Vincent is persuaded to hide drug drugs in his offshore catch until he is eventually discovered by the local undercover local 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 Haitian soothsayer friend John, who lives in the Gulf of Florida swamps, that Tashtego is the notorious head of the snake who controls the bloody drug cartel.

From Key West to the Turks and Caicos 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 grasp of the mysterious drug lord.

Based loosely and Moby Dick and The Heart of Darkness, Tashtego is introduced by the thoughts a 2,000 pound Blue Marlin while she fights for her very life against man and nature. The story centers largly on deep sea sports fishing in the Florida Keys, but he real mystery to the story is who is Tashtego and the ultimte thrilling answer will certainly surprise the reader.