The road that John Bellamy takes in The Last Florida Boy, the just-published novel from St. Petersburg’s Tom Gribbin, isn’t always pretty. Although there are thrilling adventures along the way, a lot of it is paved with false promises and the detritus of a failed romance.
That would be the “romance” of pot smuggling, which lured many Florida boys in the 1970s and early ‘80s into thinking they were the swashbuckling characters in a Jimmy Buffett song.
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