Florida Man
by J.C. Bruce
Alexander Strange wants to get to Florida in the worst way. So he arrives in a coffin. And why not? He writes about news of the weird for a living, so what could be crazier than that? Well, things do get more bizarre when he hooks up with an old college friend who is being blackmailed by a mad rhymester who sends her on a scavenger hunt across the state to a series of oddly haunted tourist traps. Kinda funny. Until it isn’t. Bullets will do that.
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Would history repeat itself? “Look what happened to our British friends at Gallipoli. Of the first two hundred men that landed at Cape Helles, only twelve made the beach alive.” As early as 1919, Marine General “Howling Mad” Holland Smith knew the US would likely be involved in another World War against Japan. He feared that it was only a matter of time. His eyes turned to the Pacific islands as the most logical theatre of war. How, he wondered, could the Marines possibly land troops and keep them alive long enough to fight? In 1928, the killer Okeechobee Hurricane strikes Florida. Don Roebling, grandson of the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, is determined to invent a rescue boat that can conquer the swamps, the flooding and the debris strewn terrain to save lives! Together, these two Americans will face nightmares of red tape, engineering challenges, corruption and personal set-backs to train and equip the US Marines for their greatest challenges of WWII, and shape world history.