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21 " But that was Key West. It searched out and exploited the hairline crack in each person’s stability and crowbarred it open. "
― Tim Dorsey , Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)
22 " Minimum was valuable to McJagger, first, because he’d sold 42 percent of all the trailers in Vista Isles, getting an average of sixty thousand for the “$39,000” model through fine print and outright fraud. "
23 " Ellrod, like all Florida convenience store clerks, had the Serengeti altertness of the tastiest gazelle in the "
24 " Sand Key lighthouse. Johnny "
25 " Ochopee, smallest post office in the United States of America. "
26 " Dolphins like to wear hats,” said Coleman, a joint dangling from his lips as he drove. On his head was one of those afro wigs painted in a rainbow. "
27 " That he was so laconic and circumspect only increased his draw, a distant, self-assured aura everyone wanted to touch. "
28 " Duval Street. They "
29 " Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody. "
30 " Seriously, why do we stay in this state?” Sean asked. "
31 " The problem isn’t the tourists. It’s the criminal element,” said Serge. “That, and untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. "
32 " What gripes me the most is all the garbage they give us Cubans. All of that ‘Oh my God, we’re being overrun by rafters!’ Hell, we’ve worked hard to help build Key West and Tampa and Miami,” said Serge. “Forget the Marielitos. What about the Ohio-litos?! "