D S AllenBorn to an Air Force family, I traveled widely until age 15, when my father retired to a waterfront home on St. Pete Beach, Florida, only a half-mile from the sugar-sand beaches of nearby Pass-a-Grille, where I met the characters in my book. Over theyears following high-school graduation, they made fortunes trafficking marijuana, and enlisted my participation in a number of their exploits. Sensing that theirs was a story that needed telling, I started writing. Alas, the (very) rough draft languished in a bottom drawer for almost 35 years as I pursued careers as a police officer, earned a B.A. in literature and became a high-school English teacher and night shift radio talk-show host, and ultimately earned a J.D. - a law degree - and started a 27-year sojourn through the toxic ether of the legal profession, litigating divorce cases and defending drug runners. Finally, retirement provided me the welcome opportunity to resurrect it - I hope you'll find it worthy of reading. Read More Read Less