Crap on a trip to Key West to talk with the wealthy developer about a new building project, deal stops to help young black man who is being rostered by police on a lonely Beach road. The young man is appreciative which makes it all the more shocking when he turns up Dead 2 days later. What happened? The police won't say. The locals won't talk. An old girlfriend appears, but deal can't tell whether she's there to help her hinder him. References keep being made till 70 year old too of piracy and murder as it should mean something to him. All deal knows for sure is that the more he looks into it the more layers he finds and the more people seem to have died.