FLORIDA PALMS

Three young men, adrift and wild at heart, get hired as movers in a criminal front and find themselves mixed up with rank opportunists, rival gangs, and a panther-hunting hitman as they each fight for a shot at the Big Time in this page-turning "Sons of Anarchy" meets "Breaking Bad" set on the Space Coast of Florida.

All they wanted was a summer job, a way to make a little cash. Three broke Florida boys, fresh out of high school and wild at heart, get hired by a moving company run by one of their fathers: a gruff, felonious old Hells Angels biker who has supposedly retired from the fast life. But when a stranger from the father's past rolls into town, the boys' small world gets flipped upside down. They discover that the moving company is a front for a criminal organization shipping a new designer drug up the East Coast. Enticed by larger pay checks and fueled by burgeoning drug habits, the young friends soon find themselves mixed up with rank opportunists, meth zombies, killer cops, and a panther-hunting hitman, each fighting it out for a shot at the Big Time. Will the young men find redemption, or will they end up like so many others, lying face down in the muck of the unforgiving swamps? Joe Pan is the author of five books of poetry and many published short stories. In 2007, he founded Brooklyn Arts Press, publisher of over 70 books, which became the smallest house ever honored with a National Book Award win in Poetry (2016). Joe is also the publisher of Augury Books, recently honored with a Lambda Literary win for Best Book of Lesbian Poetry (2021). Joe's writing has appeared in places such as the Boston Review, Hyperallergic, the New Republic, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Review of Books, and Poets & Writers.