Bait and Switch
By Eric Douglas
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Drug smugglers are flying their cargo into the Florida Keys to distribute throughout the United States when their plane crashes just offshore from Withrow Key. Diving on the crash site for the local sheriff, Jackson realizes everything isn’t quite what it seems. It is up to Jackson and his friends to make sure the drug cartel doesn’t see his home as a route for drugs ever again by performing a bait and switch.
Eric Douglas
Life is an adventure for Eric Douglas, above and below the water and wherever in the world he ends up. Eric received a degree in Journalism from Marshall University. After working in local newspapers, honing his skills as a story teller, and following a stint as a freelance journalist in the former Soviet Union, he became a dive instructor. The ocean and diving have factored into all of his fiction works since then.As a documentarian, Eric has worked in Russia, Honduras and most recently in his home state of West Virginia, featuring the oral histories of West Virginia war veterans in the documentary West Virginia Voices of War and the companion book Common Valor.Visit his website at: www.booksbyeric.com.Eric talks about adventure and taking time to be creative, along with diving and writing, on his blog at www.booksbyeric.com. He would love it if you dropped by to say hello.You can also follow him on Twitter, get in touch on Facebook or through Google+. Lastly, you can always send him an email: eric@booksbyeric.com
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Bait and Switch - Eric Douglas
Bait and Switch
A Withrow Key
Adventure Short Story
By Eric Douglas
Bait and Switch
By Eric Douglas
Third Edition, 2015. Copyright Eric Douglas at Smashwords
Second Edition 2013. First Edition 2006.
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Copyright © 2015 Eric Douglas
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
About the Author
Chapter 1
I don’t mind telling you guys, I thought I was going to be bored, but I think I’m actually starting to relax,
the first angler said. I think my body is finally beginning to slow down.
I thought you’d like it. That’s why I keep coming back to this little island. Withrow Key is quiet and that’s the way I like it. You get divers and guys coming out fishing, but that’s about it. Not all the hassles with the tourists going down to Key West or the crowds that only make it down to the northern keys,
the second man replied. He leaned back in his fishing chair on the deck of his Hatteras-style fishing boat, the No Account – so named because of his career in banking, and it was what his ex-wife said about him during the divorce hearing.
So, who needs a beer?
asked the third man as he came out into the bright Florida sun from the enclosed cabin. You guys can fish all you want, but I just want to lie in the sun and drink my fill.
Two hands shot up and the third man disappeared back into the cabin to fetch the drinks. For the three men, it was an opportunity to get away from their busy lives. None of them could spare the time to take a long vacation, but the little island in the middle of the Florida Keys was close enough that they could take off from their Miami homes and businesses and spend a couple days on the water, relaxing before they had to jump back into the fray of their high pressure world. It was quiet out on the water and that was the way they all liked it. One was in pharmaceutical sales, another in banking and a third worked for the company that managed the port of Miami.