Fuego

While on an early morning outing to an uninhabited key popular with boaters in the Gulf of Mexico, Zach Rheinhart makes a macabre discovery: a dead man whose tongue has been removed. After alerting local authorities, Rheinhart returns to his home and awaits the inevitable barrage of reporting regarding the garish crime. But a strange thing happens – days and then weeks go by without a mention of the dead man in any local or national media outlet, including the Internet. How could such a seemingly high-profile incident go unreported in this era of 24/7 news coverage?It isn’t until Steve Morrison, a friend of Rheinhart who harbors some dark secrets of his own, is brought in by the FBI for questioning that the mystery slowly begins to unfold. When Rheinhart is interviewed by the FBI four days later, more pieces of the puzzle fall into place.This fast-paced political thriller set on Florida’s Gulf Coast just weeks after Hurricane Irma battered the state in 2017 features a quirky cast of characters that includes spies, porn stars, military veterans, first responders, and a Canadian claiming to be America’s most notorious hijacker. Read more