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Angus sits in on a meeting with Wes and Dolores Wade. Dolores tells the tale behind the gold coins Cory had access to since he turned eighteen. Johnny Lee has been put into the hospital after McCoy was there looking for Cory. Someone else is after Cory Wade. McCoy knows it has to do with those gold coins. The faster he goes the further behind he gets from Cory Wade.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Ivan's story is what both Clay and Dylan want to hear now that Ivan is talking. He speaks of the people he met and how he got in with the hippies and the peace movement. As he moves, he moves with them. Everyone shares what they have. Ivan meets Cousin Carl. Carl is inside the peace movement. Ivan tells Carl he's to find his brother. Carl knows Pharaoh. He wants to hear Ivan's story. "I can ...
Topics: Fiction, Relationship, Family
Cory Wade is in the wind. McCoy throws in the towel. He flies back to San Diego. Until there is a sighting, or until Cory contacts his mom or Jess, McCoy is dead in the water. There are bigger fish to fry. McCoy has been charged with assault and illegal entry. It's a charge Wes can disprove, but it takes time and it ties up McCoy. None of it gets McCoy any closer to Cory. In San Francisco, ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Ivan's story unfolds. Once he finds the first man in his brother's squad, who had come back to the world, that led to the next guy or two. As he talks to each of the men in Boris squad, he learns more. As he moves from one to the next, he falls in with the peace movement. Mostly kids Ivan's age and younger, they are hippies, flower children, peaceniks, the government goes after the safe houses ...
Topics: Fiction, Relationship, Love
Angus McCoy knows he's close and he now knows that Cory has money. As he waited for the coin shop to open, Cory was leaving San Francisco behind. As McCoy follows in Cory's footsteps, he doesn't realize Cory is about to disappear from his radar screen. Cory hitchhiked out of town. When Leon, a college student, picks him up, Cory knows the boy is horny and he's looking for a special friend to take ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Ivan is in the midst of telling both his men about the ten years he was away. As he began locating members of Boris' company, the story of his brother being left on a battlefield in Vietnam began to unfold. Each man who fought beside Boris fits another piece into place. The lieutenant, riddled with guilt, gives Ivan directions to the battlefield in Vietnam. The idea Ivan is going to find his ...
Topics: Fiction, Relationship, Family
McCoy has come as close to Cory as he's going to get. Cory does do something McCoy thinks he could do, but he comes and goes before Angus can goes into The City. Cory has a plan after spending the night in a hotel room with tourists. He has a plan and no one will be able to follow him. He doesn't know where he'll end up, but it won't be close to anyone he's communicated with before. He has ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
With a mixture of policeman's savvy and the stealth of a Private Detective, Angus picks up the trail. He doesn't simply need to follow the clues, he must decide what they mean. After his computer guru gives him names and locations, McCoy flies away from San Diego. He hopes he can track Cory's movements and get some concrete sightings. Angus feels close and Cory now knows what the guy his father ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Ivan decides to tell both Clay and Dylan the story of how he went about bringing Boris home from Vietnam. The story is even too fantastic for Ivan to believe, but every word is true. Telling both Clay and Dylan the story is supposed to answer all the questions and doubts they have about Ivan's years away from the cove.
Topics: Fiction, Romance, Family
Angus McCoy goes by the numbers, tracking Cory through the information on his computer. Each stop takes him a step closer to finding the trail Cory is clever enough to hide. After tracking him as far as Oceanside, Cory got on a bus north. Before tracking him, McCoy needs to check with Jessie. McCoy ends up in the middle between father and son. He offers the father his best advice. Jessie ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Clay gives thanks for the life he lives. Harry gives thanks for his donors. Ivan doesn't trust politicians, and Clay tries to pretend they aren't tied to the life he has. As they realize how lucky they are, living in paradise and being together, Ivan is ready to talk. He'll tell the story about his absence only once. Clay isn't sure he wants to hear about Ivan being a spy for the CIA. Dylan ...
Topics: Fiction, Relationship, Family, Politician
The senator shows off Sea Lab. Clay needs to go along with Harry, even if it does take time he'd rather be spending with Ivan and Dylan. Clay is still considering his future. His love for Ivan grows by the day and it gegins to scare him. Once again Ivan reassures Clay, 'I'm not going anywhere.' Love and the sea makes for a life of wonder. Clay thinks he must be the luckiest guy alive, but he ...
Topics: Fiction, Love
Using the contacts Angus is given from Cory's computer, the investigative work begins. Angus begin his interviews with the maid who cleans the house. She hasn't cleaned up any unusual mess. She cleans on Fridays and if the Wades are entertaining. The off site connection to Cory's computer leads Angus to Johnny Lee. Cory stayed with Johnny, after leaving home. Cory's trail leads away from Johnny's ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Angus is arrested for being in Tony Wade's house and for assaulting him while he was there. Wes has his detective out in short order and they talk about his progress in finding Cory Wade. It seems Cory logged onto his computer from a third party location after the day he disappeared. Someone else could have access to Cory's computer, but it was more logical that Cory needed something off his ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Joe Buck has a routine before he climbs into his big to start a run. Mark makes Joe's changes Joe's routine in a big way. Usually finding agreeable boys along the side of the road, Mark has been waiting for Joe to pass his corner. He gets Joe's attention and it's the start of beautiful friendship, and that was before Roger sticks out his thumb and makes it three. Mark lives for sex and Roger ...
Topics: Hitchhiking, Sex, Trucker
Ivan works on completing the Cove,Dive, Surf, and Bait Shop with Tag's help, after school. Clay stays close to Ivan and realizes how much more he loves him now than he ever loved him before he went to find Boris. Dylan keeps Daddy-O on a tight leash. When Ivan isn't where Dylan expects him to be, when he expects him to be there. Dylan jerks the leash to get his father's attention. Ivan ...
Topics: Fiction, Relationship, Family
Clay gets accustomed to having help in doing the things Harry wants done. Ivan starts to expand on his plan to develop the cove with Tag's help. Dylan goes about photographing everything in and around his world.
Topics: Fiction, Relationship
McCoy is inside the Wade House, getting everything he came for, before he gets out, Tony Wade comes home. Tony Wade is a bad bad man, but McCoy has handled bad men before. While he handles Tony, there will be fallout.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
McCoy briefs Wes on his progress in finding Cory Wade. After going to see Cory's mother, McCoy begins investigating near the Wade's house. In particular, he wanted to speak to the man who lived directly across the street and witnessed Jessie's exit from the house and his hiding naked in between cars as Mr. Wade threw the boy's clothes out of the house. McCoy liked to get as much information on an ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Clay is back to work. Previously he's done a single. What he needed to do, what he saw, what he presented to Harry was a one man operation. Now, Harry has hired him help he doesn't need. Clay needed to learn to play well with others now that he is back. Harry takes the time to tell Clay how important he is is to the Sanibel Island Conservancy. Clay realizes how important he is.
Topics: Fiction, Romance
Clay's devotion to his career to save the Gulf of Mexico has been shaken. Harold, after being told, 'We need Clayton Olson in the Gulf,' goes about reigniting Clay's love for all things in the Gulf of Mexico. When Ivan explains to Clay how much he loves him, he reveals his third person view of who Clay is. With that, Ivan glues their love, their son, and the work he does in the Gulf together, ...
Topics: Fiction, Romance, Love
Cory Wade Is Missing. His mother is unable to shed light on his disappearance. Unable to get an interview with Anthony Wade, Angus McCoy goes to Biship's School, hoping to find out something from his school mates. Talking to teenage boys is a mission impossible, and no one knows anything, When Jessie shows up, everything changes. Jessie knows something and McCoy works on getting it out of him. ...
Topics: Fiction, Romance, Mystery & Crime, Love
Angus McCoy is having difficult finding out who Cory Wade is. When he goes to Bishop's School, the boys don't seem to know Cory very well. It was a controlled environment and no one told tales out of school or in the office of the head mistress for that matter. McCoy merely needs to know who he is looking for, but they guys who knew Cory best weren't talking.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Clay's decision to continue as a marine biologist or not hangs in the balance. People rally around him to convince him he's needed in the Gulf. A surprise visit from Harold, the coast guard's man, gets Clay back into the water. This is where Clay belongs. As storm warnings are sounded, Clay remembers how much he loves his life as a marine biology investigator. After taking a careful look at his ...
Topics: Fiction, Family
Clay is questioning his effectiveness once he's lost the one reef he knew the most about. Heartsick, he needs to find a reason to continue doing what he's been doing. The people around him. Bill Payne comes to encourage his most important disciple at a time he is having a crisis of faith. Clay Olson speaks to an audience in Tampa, because Harry has arranged it. He speaks to Dylan's sixth grade ...
Topics: Fiction, Family
Angus McCoy visits Mrs. Wade, who has left her husband. She knew better than to tell tales about her husband, and that made McCoy's job all the harder. He'd need to confront Anthony Wade, sooner or later, but it wasn't a proposition he would enjoy. First, the boys at Bishop's School might be able to give McCoy a direction to go in, but he knew that most kids weren't willing to talk about a boy ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Angus McCoy needs to make careful moves. He's heard of Anthony Wade, and if he's responsible for his son's disappearance, McCoy was never going to find the boy for his mother.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
Cory Wade has been found in bed with his male lover from school. Anthony Wade is not a nice man. He intends to confront his son about being a queer, but his son, fearing for his life, is gone. Enter Angus McCoy, a private detective hired by Mrs. Wade to find her son. She's sure Tony has something to do with Cory's disappearance. Sniffing around a man with a lot of skeletons in his closet, Tony ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
A year later, after meeting Ivan and becoming his best friend, as well as his next door neighbor, and not quite a mile down the beach, the idea of becoming a fisherman at fifteen hadn't entered my mind.
Topics: Fiction, Family
Ivan has returned home after ten years away. Clay doesn't want to take up with Ivan again, but their son has him dealing with the man who left Clay. Dylan, a force of nature, has no difficulty taking to his biological father, Daddy-O, but Ivan knows he needs to prove to Clay and his son, he's home to stay. As Clay tries to save the Gulf of Mexico, and Senator McCallister keeps Clay busy appearing ...
Topics: Fiction, Family