Flush - Carl Hiaasen [80]
Dad edged closer to Mom, and she leaned against his shoulder. Abbey was kneeling in the bow, aiming her camera as the last molten slice of light dripped out of sight.
I sat there dangling my feet in the ripples, watching the day fade away. I was hoping that wherever he might be, Grandpa Bobby was enjoying the same sunset.
When the flash of green came, it lasted for only a magical flick of time—so brief and brilliant and beautiful, I was afraid I’d imagined it.
But then I heard my father say, “How amazing was that?”
So excited, he sounded just like a kid.
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The legend of the green flash, however, is well known in the Florida Keys.
Copyright © 2005 by Carl Hiaasen
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in hardcover as a Borzoi Book by Alfred A. Knopf in 2005.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hiaasen, Carl.
Flush / by Carl Hiaasen.
p. cm.
SUMMARY: With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida
Keys home.
eISBN: 978-0-375-83752-4
[1. Environmental protection—Fiction. 2. River boats—Fiction. 3. Fathers—
Fiction. 4. Florida—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H495Flu 2005
[Fic]—dc22 2005005259
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
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