Florida Palms A Novel
Florida Palms A Novel by Joe Pan, published by Simon and Schuster on July 22, 2025, is a 480-page narrative set against the backdrop of the Great Recession in 2009. The story follows best friends Eddy, Cueball, and Jesse, who, facing a bleak job market on Florida’s Space Coast, become entangled in a drug-running operation orchestrated by Cueball’s father, a former biker. As they navigate this dangerous new world, the young men are drawn into a web of crime, betrayal, and violence that tests their friendships and moral boundaries.
Readers will find a gritty coming-of-age tale that explores themes of loyalty and survival amid chaos. The narrative delves into the complexities of brotherhood as the friends confront not only external threats from gangsters and opportunists but also their own inner demons fueled by addiction and ambition. Florida Palms presents a vivid portrayal of the struggles faced by forgotten communities, capturing the harsh realities of life on the fringes while maintaining a deeply humane perspective. This edition offers a compelling look at the choices that define youth in a turbulent environment.
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The Outsiders meet Sons of Anarchy in this gripping debut about a group of young men dragged into a drug-running operation.
It’s 2009, the height of the Great Recession. Best friends Eddy, Cueball, and Jesse are fresh out of high school and wild at heart, but the economy is in the dumps. With jobs scarce along Florida’s Space Coast, they join a furniture-moving company run by Cueball’s father, a gruff ex-con biker who’s supposedly retired from the fast life. But when a mysterious old boss arrives in town, the payload is switched out, and the young men are coerced into shipping a new designer drug up the East Coast.
What is advertised as a bastion of brotherhood and respect quickly spirals into back-alley deals, bloodshed, and an all-out turf war that will test the bounds of love and friendship. Enticed by larger paychecks, and fueled by burgeoning drug habits, the young friends find themselves trapped between rank opportunists, warring gangsters, meth zombies, crazed bikers, and a blowgun-wielding hitman, all vying for a shot at the big time.
Soaring, ambitious, and deeply humane, Florida Palms is a gritty coming-of-age story with enormous heart and an unflinching vision of the violence and inequities facing forgotten communities. In a relentless race against desperate circumstances, the young friends must fully embrace the crime life or abandon their loyalties and risk ending up face down in the muck of the unforgiving swamps.
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