(Hardcover) In this book Ed Clark tells stories he remembers hearing from his grandparents as well as those from his own 63 years in Florida. A third generation Floridian, he brings to the reader the humor and perspective of old Florida before superhighways, chain stores and concrete block houses.

When his protege Alan Brandon disappears and the body is found mutilated, everyone concludes that Iron Joe Suarez' 'son' is dead-except Iron Joe. Alan Brandon is worth a million dollars a year to the Hatchet gang. So Joe calls on the best skip tracer in South Florida to find the truth. Molly Orwell, ex-policewoman and finder of missing persons, will take on the job, at the risk of "getting my head blow off." What Iron Joe doesn't know is that Molly has strong feelings for Alan Brandon. She locates him only to find out he is infatuated with another woman. If she tells Joe where Alan is, he is as good as dead. So she tries to give back Joe's money. The next thing Alan (now called Ron) hears, are Molly's screams as she's tied to a chair and being beaten. Joe commands Alan to return, threatening otherwise he'll torture Molly to death. Alan knows if he goes back he'll be murdered along with Molly, but he goes back anyway, hoping to save Molly.

The third book in the Rod Gentry series by Edward S. Clark. A young businessman is entrusted with the job of restoring a dilapidated, crumbling apartment complex. But he finds the physical problems of the property are the least part of his concerns. Slum tenants present special problems he's never had before. Shakedown artists, crooked city officials, and drug gangs all have their part in breeding misery to the near hopeless unfortunates who live in the complex. Rod Gentry has never experienced anything like this, and before he's through, he'll have an education they don't teach you about in college.

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(Paperback) In this book Ed Clark tells stories he remembers hearing from his grandparents as well as those from his own 63 years in Florida. A third generation Floridian, he brings to the reader the humor and perspective of old Florida before superhighways, chain stores and concrete block houses.

Set in the land of sunshine on the sparkling waters of the Indian River of coastal Florida. A clever young real estate operator fights to rehabilitate a small but potentially beautiful marina, the hurricane hole sought by boats when wild winds rage. Rod Gentry battles sabotage, arson, and a crooked county commissioner to make a name for the marina and enough money to fulfill his wife's hopes of building a new children's home. The blond-haired orphan waif Rachel, in a wheelchair, inspires him to reach higher than he ever thought of reaching. In the end it is his marina tenants, living on their boats, that protect and support him. Bill Croft, the dock master, is fiercely loyal, even when it means taking his shotgun to intruders. Abe Pickett, ex-mercenary and Bill's friend, solves problems with plastic explosives in the middle of the night. And Winston English, the stunt man who lives at the marina gives Rod an astounding perspective of what the marina could become, and why it should.