Harbor Night

A small-time hustler has his throat cut in a motel room in a sleepy Gulf Coast town. Down-on-his-luck defense attorney Nate McGrath is appointed to represent Lionel Washington, the street-level drug dealer accused of the crime. At first, it looks like an open-and-shut case with no defense. But then Nate learns that the victim had a dirty little secret - the kind of secret that maybe got him killed, and not by Lionel Washington. When Nate threatens to reveal the secret in defense of his client, he learns that there are powerful people who will go to any length to stop him – people like Vernon "Pork Chop" Pickett, a local politician with insatiable appetites, and Archer Moore, an avaricious real estate developer who won't be satisfied until the entire State of Florida is paved over.
Harbor Night is hard-boiled Florida crime fiction at its finest.