Florida in the 1970’s crime and drug scene was wild and dangerous as I soon discovered while I was hitchhiking through the state several times during my mid to upper teenage years. I visited bars, roadside taverns, pool halls and game rooms where the drug dealers and other criminals hung out to kick it with each other and sell to their buyer customers as they came about seeking.
I witnessed firsthand that crime syndicates and drug rings were widely spread across the area most prevalent in the cities but also lacing throughout the countryside. From orange groves to vegetable farms where migrant workers made their daily paychecks some of them so that they could arrange a buy and use their drugs then go out and do it all over again the next day.
During my hitchhiking escapades and other encounters with the area, I even located people who would buy stolen cars as well as a used car dealership that would give a better price to me and other runaways beside me who participated in criminal activities that I was privy.
I have also had other criminal and drug affairs throughout my life and when I first became an author in authorship I wrote some of my books on those genres among others all of which I had first hand experience at. These were the topics I was most knowledgeable about experiences straight from the life I lived they were the perfect subject matter to choose for my titles.
Indeed, I wrote Fantastic Florida Fun mystery thriller concerning a legal aged runaway who runs into a girl and her father but the Dad was a kingpin hippie that earned his legal money from an orange grove business that also sheltered his criminal dealings.
That crime boss employed the teenagers in pushing his drugs in town for him. However the hero teenager suspected foul play in the bedroom and he was pretty sure it involved an incestuous scandal. Upon questioning his girlfriend, he found no real witness but then he made a breakthrough discovery that sickened him terribly.
The girlfriend and boyfriend went somewhere they could sit down and talk about things. Questioning her, he was able to discern the truth that the father was using hypnosis to seduce her and then alter her memory of the affair at each event.
Livid and seeking revenge the runaway who was by all intents and purposes a man now sought to put a stop to this scandal forever.
Timothy Louis Baker
Fantastic Florida Fun
Hitchhiking, Florida, crime, drugs, syndicates, mystery, kingpin, hypnosis, incestuous, scandal
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