so i was reading the synopsis for Houseboat by Stacatto and my mind is yelling at the empty void that is my memory and asking hey didn't we read this years ago. Does anyone remember a story about a houseboat that the MC aquired(won) that had the mob chasing him cause it had money hidden on it, I think. I was just wondering if anyone else remember this story or if my mind has just twisted bits and pieces of decades of stories i have read here.
thanks
I remember a similar story but the mc found a mobsters yacht, believe the mobster was dead inside and there was a lot of different currencies onboard, jewelry (iirc he eventually contacted the mobsters wife and returned the jewelry), then holed up in a run down marina (can't recall with or w/o the yacht) he eventually buys...or I may be confusing 2 or more stories lol
SunSeeker
Author's blog says he has 7 books in print so I found the same story in dead tree form on the river site. Just different author name. Most of the other books feature the same main character.
I think it might have been of one of Dual Writer's Florida Friends stories, but I can't remember which one. They bought a yacht that had been seized by the DEA and discovered a false panel in the bathroom ceiling where lots of drug money was concealed. And the DEA had never found it during their searches. Of course, the cartel wanted it back.
I'll poke thru those. i have read a few in the series so that may indeed be the thread i am recalling.
thanks everyone for their input.
I don't remember anything like that in 'Florida Friends', but the event described does occur in another story. Guys' niece comes to live with him after father is killed in what is later determined to be a plot by stepmother et al. Win a boat at auction of seized goods, and discover drugs hidden in ceiling when panel falls. Later drugs are found in other locations as well. A mobster comes to seek retribution but is defeated (maybe killed as well).
In 1 of the Chuck stories they found a planeload of cash behind the paneling in one of the planes he bought. The drug angle might have happened in one of Chuck's stories as well as I seem to remember Chuck getting a super huge yacht for some reason...
You remember rightly.
It's been over a year since I reread Florida Friends, but Chuck does get two large yachts. The first he trades a smaller yacht for (the vendor had reasons), and turned out to be fitted up as a drug courier with an undersurface container. The second was a drug cartel seizure after the owner was killed in a firefight. There was a wife with jewelry; she never got it back as her hands were pretty dirty.
These events will be in books 5, 6 or 8. (Book 7, "On My Own," introduced a new character.)
It has been a while since I last reread Florida Friends. I guess I need to go back and reread them again. Always good reading.
Could it be:
Dark Days by Reluctant_sir
Or
Matts Crazy Corner of the World by FantasyLover
Or
Son of a Sailor by SmokinDriver
But I also remember another story that matches more closely to the provided details (unlike the ones I directly identify above as those only match in bits and pieces) but unfortunately I can't remember the title or author right now, sorry.
The only story I know with a subplot like that is https://storiesonline.net/s/18210/dark-days-darkest-before which was the first of your three. He gets the boat in Chapter 9 (hence "subplot") and the complications start a couple of chapters later.
He originally finished this story here in 2010, updated in 2011 and then maybe again in 2015 (although he may not have finished that update). There is/was a sequel called 'Code Name - Crescent', which he finished in 2013. That's going by the copies I have on my hard drive.
I believe you're remembering Stacatto's story. It was here earlier, finished in 2010 according to Stacatto's blog. The one currently being posted is an 'improved' version.
AJ
thats my bad, when i read the synopsis i didn't realize it was a update/rewrite and i hadn't clicked thru cause i have to many current serials on my reading list at the moment but it just kept tickling the back of my mind.
thanks