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The Square Grouper: Two Friends, One Secret...Their Deadliest Catch
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
If you found a Square Grouper? It's a question whispered on docks across South Florida and the Keys, a local legend mixing temptation and danger. For Islamorada best friends Jorge Ramirez and Chuck Henderson, living for fishing trips aboard their boat the Reel Trouble, the hypothetical crashes into reality with terrifying force.
Hidden deep within a massive offshore sargassum raft, they discover the jackpot from a barnacle-encrusted bale packed not with marijuana, but kilos of professionally branded (WSC) cocaine surrounding millions in pristine, untraceable cash. Their panicked decision defines their dump the deadly coke bricks – which horrifyingly refuse to sink, drifting towards shore as evidence – and secretly stash the fortune in their crumbling childhood treehouse.
Instantly, their sun-drenched world becomes a pressure cooker of paranoia. The secret isolates them, straining family ties and testing their lifelong friendship. Soon, their worst fears materialize as ruthless WSC enforcers, dispatched from Miami after learning their cash is missing, arrive in Islamorada. Subtle surveillance escalates to chilling warnings, online reward posts seeking information, and finally, a direct, terrifying confrontation where the hunters reveal just how much they know about the discovery.
Just sixteen and hopelessly out of their depth, Jorge and Chuck find themselves caught between professional killers and the crushing weight of their secret. Their survival may depend on their intimate knowledge of the Keys' treacherous mangrove mazes, their fractured bond, and perhaps the ambiguous help of Salty Mike, a watchful oldtimer with dangerous secrets of his own. Forced towards a desperate gamble, they must answer the Keys' most perilous question What do you do now? Their answer could cost them everything.
If you found a Square Grouper? It's a question whispered on docks across South Florida and the Keys, a local legend mixing temptation and danger. For Islamorada best friends Jorge Ramirez and Chuck Henderson, living for fishing trips aboard their boat the Reel Trouble, the hypothetical crashes into reality with terrifying force.
Hidden deep within a massive offshore sargassum raft, they discover the jackpot from a barnacle-encrusted bale packed not with marijuana, but kilos of professionally branded (WSC) cocaine surrounding millions in pristine, untraceable cash. Their panicked decision defines their dump the deadly coke bricks – which horrifyingly refuse to sink, drifting towards shore as evidence – and secretly stash the fortune in their crumbling childhood treehouse.
Instantly, their sun-drenched world becomes a pressure cooker of paranoia. The secret isolates them, straining family ties and testing their lifelong friendship. Soon, their worst fears materialize as ruthless WSC enforcers, dispatched from Miami after learning their cash is missing, arrive in Islamorada. Subtle surveillance escalates to chilling warnings, online reward posts seeking information, and finally, a direct, terrifying confrontation where the hunters reveal just how much they know about the discovery.
Just sixteen and hopelessly out of their depth, Jorge and Chuck find themselves caught between professional killers and the crushing weight of their secret. Their survival may depend on their intimate knowledge of the Keys' treacherous mangrove mazes, their fractured bond, and perhaps the ambiguous help of Salty Mike, a watchful oldtimer with dangerous secrets of his own. Forced towards a desperate gamble, they must answer the Keys' most perilous question What do you do now? Their answer could cost them everything.
217 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 2, 2025
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