Devilfish Key

The third noir thriller from Florida author Todd Cameron . . . August 2022. Dean Murdock is a minimum wage laborer at a marina in the small town of Englewood, Florida. He can only dream of owning a boat like the ones he works on, toiling on multimillion-dollar vessels under the blazing subtropical sun. Murdock is a nobody to his superiors, he’s an invisible and expendable boatyard grunt. His name has never made the invite list to the annual Labor Day meetup at Devilfish Key—a slow burn for years. One Friday night, after another long grueling workweek—on a total fluke gamble—he hits the big time, winning the Mega Millions jackpot to the tune of $333 million. Murdock claims his prize under a cloak of anonymity and carries on at work as normal. Denied an invitation out to Devilfish Key once again, he plans to make a vaunting display at the island’s sandbar gathering aboard his brand-new yacht, Revenge. The day before the meetup, Murdock’s estranged son gets word of his windfall and comes out of the woodwork, angling for a handout. This starts a chain reaction of bad luck and trouble, a downward spiral leading to murder, mayhem, and a fiery confrontation out at Devilfish Key. Murdock learns the hard way that money has not brought him nothing but chaos and death . . .