The Tuna Tango by Steven Becker is a novel about a down on his luck contractor who is forced to leave the Keys for Tampa after a hurricane. It is similar to his Mac Travis novels.

Will and his girl friend are forced to relocate to the Tampa Bay area after a hurricane destroys his unfinished house in the Florida Keys. Sheryl returns to college and works nights as a waitress in a bar. Will is sort of stumbling around between jobs, thinking about starting a paddle board fishing business. He has lost his contractor's license and can't bid construction jobs. A former fishing client of his in the Keys and fish wholesaler talks him into doing a renovation of a fish house for him on the side. It is a dilapidated building on piles over one of the boat channels in the Tampa Bay region. The owner wants it done for as cheap as possible because if the renovation costs more than the half the value of the building it will have to be torn down and rebuilt to code. This would keep the building from being on piles out over a portion of the channel and restrict the ability of the wholesaler of bringing fish directly to the fish house from the boats.

Will takes on the job to keep the girl friend happy. It becomes a cascading set of problems with the job and the girl friend. Will has little money and no license. He is forced to use a couple of dopers, the girl friend sends his way that need some extra money for college and dope. The wholesaler is involved in an illegal fishing scheme with a local fisherman with a sketching legal history. Will is forced to rescue his girl friend from the fisherman who has kidnapped her to try and control Will and keep the project moving forward and keep the cops out of the way.

This is a good quick read that will entertain you. ( )