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While preparing for a Category 5 hurricane off Pensacola Beach, a Coast Guard air crew spots a fishing cooler six miles offshore. Inside, they find body parts tightly wrapped in plastic. Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is called in, despite the hurricane’s projected path, to trace the remains. She discovers that the torso belongs to a man who vanished weeks earlier after a hurricane struck Port St. Lucie, Florida—over 600 miles away on the Atlantic coast—raising questions about how his body ended up in the Gulf of Mexico.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Alex Kava
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