One pair of tourists take special prominence in the book: Arthur, an unexceptional writer, and his beautiful, unhappy wife. Tensions mount between this hardscrabble jack-of-all-trades and several tourists who frequent his local bars. He has little patience for those who have not remained as resilient to the times as himself, and he has no patience for outsiders. Undeterred, he signs to the next scheme he runs across: stealing a boat and ferrying Cubans involved in a bank robbery back to their homeland.Īs he descends ever-deeper into desperation, Harry meets old friends and new faces. Next, Harry begins running alcohol between the two countries, and a confrontation with Cuban customs lost Harry his arm and his boat. However, after being tricked by a customer who charters the boat for three weeks and then vanishes without settling his account, Harry agrees to smuggle Chinese immigrants from Cuba to the mainland. Harry refuses, preferring to use his boat for legal activities, and as the revolutionaries leave, they are gunned down in the street. The book opens on Harry and several Cuban revolutionaries who want to pay Harry an exorbitant fee to transport them to the United States. To make ends meet, Harry begins engaging in increasingly dangerous illegal activities in the waters between the Keys and Cuba. Harry Morgan is a policeman-turned-fisherman down on his luck like so many others in the Depression-struck Florida Keys.
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