Key West Connection
Key West Connection

Author: Randy Striker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-04-04

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1101530634

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“When it comes to creating push-the-limits plots and loathsome bad guys” (Sarasota Herald-Tribune), Randy Wayne White is a master. This is the New York Times bestselling author at his vintage best—a violent plunge into the depths of the Gulf Stream as one man’s vengeance becomes another’s worst nightmare.... Ex–Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan survived a military hell only to find it again where he least expected it—as a fisherman trolling the Gulf Stream in his thirty-foot clipper. His new life is shattered when a psychotic pack of drug runners turns the turquoise waters red with the blood of his beloved family. Trained in the lethal arts, Dusky has only one recourse. Armed with an arsenal so hot it could blow the Florida coast sky-high, he’s tracking the goons responsible—right into the intimate circle of a corrupt U.S. Senator iving beyond the law in his own island fortress. It was built for ruthless power and perverse pleasure. Now it has to withstand the force of a one-man hit squad....

Buffett Backstories
Buffett Backstories

Author: Scott Atwell

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737417002

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Native Conch Scott Atwell celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Buffett's 1971 arrival in Key West by revealing the backstories to many of the singer's classic songs

The Deep Six
The Deep Six

Author: Randy Striker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-10-03

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1101530626

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For millions of readers, New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White “raises the bar of the action thriller.” (The Miami Herald) Two decades ago, under the pen name Randy Striker, he was already delivering high-octane adventure with ex-Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan—who finds himself sailing in uncharted waters of danger and deception. . . . Gifford Remus is well known as an eccentric scavenger in Key West, combing the ocean, beaches, and byways for anything of interest. But the gold chain he shows to Dusky MacMorgan is no ordinary trinket—it’s the key to finding a long-lost treasure at the bottom of the sea. Before MacMorgan can find out where that is, Remus vanishes off his boat, the apparent victim of a shark attack. But MacMorgan suspects the true killer walked on two legs. Now, surrounded by predators in and out of the water who are armed with both brute strength and breathtaking beauty, he’s going hunting for the treasure—and for vengeance…

The Last Train to Key West
The Last Train to Key West

Author: Chanel Cleeton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0451490886

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Instant New York Times bestseller One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “The perfect riveting summer read!”—BookBub In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez’s family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with a notorious American. Following her wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can’t deny the growing attraction to her new husband, his illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life. Elizabeth Preston's trip to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles after the Wall Street crash. Her quest takes her to the camps occupied by veterans of the Great War and pairs her with an unlikely ally on a treacherous hunt of his own. Over the course of the holiday weekend, the women’s paths cross unexpectedly, and the danger swirling around them is matched only by the terrifying force of the deadly storm threatening the Keys.

When We Left Cuba
When We Left Cuba

Author: Chanel Cleeton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0451490878

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Instant New York Times bestseller! In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future—but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything—not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart...

Key West Rogue Diaries
Key West Rogue Diaries

Author: Will Soto

Publisher: R. R. Bowker

Published: 2020-07-25

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780578733043

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The Key West fire that burns in my soul didn't start as a conflagration. It started as a nice warm sun on my face-and it started at Mallory Square. Imagine stumbling upon a beach party on a small tropical island, with barely clad natives, their bodies glistening with sweat, dancing to primal drum beats, smoking ritual herbs, and drinking rum from coconuts as the sun sank slowly into the ocean. It sounds like a steamy novel, but I swear it's all true. It's said that Paradise is where your realities are more exciting than your Fantasies. This book chronicles my journey through those Key West realities.

Haunted Key West
Haunted Key West

Author: David L. Sloan

Publisher: Phantom Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780967449838

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Two incredible books in one. Haunted Key West tells tales from ten of Key Wests favorite hauntings including the ghost of Ernest Hemingway, the lady in blue and the ghost of US. Strange Key West takes you beyond the supernatural with amazing stories about voodoo curses, bizarre cemeteries and a grotto that protects the island from hurricanes.

Key West in History
Key West in History

Author: Rodney Carlisle

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1561648620

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Key West is a unique travel destination whose history is so rich, it can be confusing for first-time visitors. Tourists walk through a mix of nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first‒century historic homes and attractions in a blur of fascinating impressions. They get no clear picture of the evolution of the city from its beginnings to the present and no sense of how all of the sites fit into history nor of the significance of Key West in American social, military, and intellectual history. Key West in History changes all of that. More than a typical, site-by-site guidebook, this book presents over 50 Key West sites in historical context—an invaluable resource for the visitor or student who wants a deeper understanding of how the city represents different eras of American and Floridian history, and how specific sites reflect important periods and trends in the past. Each chapter describes the events of a period of Key West history, and is accompanied by photographs of selected sites that represent that period. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

The Deadlier Sex
The Deadlier Sex

Author: Randy Striker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-10-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 110153060X

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Dusty MacMorgan and his pal Westy O'Davis are fishing along South Florida's Ten Thousand Island coast when they make a most unusual catch-a naked woman. And no sooner do they get her on board than a nearby trawler explodes. Even more remarkable is the story the waterborne beauty tells upon awakening. She is a member of a hard-core women's group secreted on a local key. And when Mac and Westy escort the lady home, they discover a tropical feminist utopia. But behind the fa ade lies a deadly secret that will make them wish they'd thrown their alluring catch back...

Hemingway's Girl
Hemingway's Girl

Author: Erika Robuck

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0451237889

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From the bestselling author of The House of Hawthorne comes a historical fiction novel that gives life to the women behind novelist Ernest Hemingway in a “robust, tender story of love, grief, and survival on Key West in the 1930s.”* In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father’s death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match...and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway. When Mariella is hired as a maid by Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline, she enters a rarified world of lavish, celebrity-filled dinner parties and elaborate off-island excursions. As she becomes caught up in the tensions and excesses of the Hemingway household, the attentions of the larger-than-life writer become a dangerous temptation...even as straightforward Gavin Murray draws her back to what matters most. Will she cross an invisible line with the volatile Hemingway, or find a way to claim her own dreams? As a massive hurricane bears down on Key West, Mariella faces some harsh truths...and the possibility of losing everything she loves.