Florida Straits

Smuggling and romance, between Cuba and frontier Florida. See what made the Twenties Roar. Hurricane Road #2

By: Roger C Horton

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The second novel of the Hurricane Road series, Florida Straits, rejoins the Bryans, Asher and Corazon, now with four grown children. They live and travel between old Cuba and young a Miami, Florida. As ship owners, they're personally involved as the United States enters the First World War. With the wars end comes the Volstead Act, prohibition. Booze is forbidden and so begins the Roaring Twenties. FLORIDA STRAITS is a graphic story of the smuggling of booze, drugs and immigrants. It’s concerns anger, deep love, greed and vengeance; men, good and bad, crossing dark water on fast boats. It's a story of a family in conflict, of unconditional love and unimaginable tragedy, as they struggle with all that comes at them in a tropical world, where the ruthless violence of man, is nothing compared to the destructive power of nature. The tale begins with the eldest son, Fred, a young man of seventeen, who is choosing to live his life on the wild side. He's smart, tough and in most ways, much like his father was at that age; in other ways, Fred is very different, which is where the trouble begins. (He is the ultimate Bad Boy.) I was asked by someone reading for a review, "Why is Fred the Devil?"