Floater — Joseph Koenig

A wildlife officer hauled the corpse from a stagnant pool near the Fakahatchee Strand in the Everglades. This "floater" was the ex-wife of Sheriff Buck White, now strangled and discarded in Florida's all-purpose dumping ground.

White's remorse and vow of vengeance are diverted by a series of missing persons cases. The Miami Police suspect that a m0-der-and-larceny team is using White's jurisdiction as a hiding place. They may also be using it for the shallow graves of their victims.

White's tenacious investigation uncovers a pattern behind the series of murders threatening the lonely-- and wealthy--women of Florida's Gold Coast. The killer is a man of uncommon resource and wicked intelligence. But he may be wrong to underestimate a hard-working country lawman motivated by revenge.