A seaplane hunting for a boat filled with stolen treasure
leaves the Florida Keys, but its owner is more concerned
with finding his friend who is missing along with the
crooks and his boat. This is the core of GREEN TO GO, a
fast-paced caper aimed at diving and aeroplane
enthusiasts.
Buck visits a bank along with his brother Ben in the first
chapter, to open a safe deposit box left by their parents.
There are many references to the previous book in the
series and half-completed treasure quests, but mainly Buck
discovers that he was adopted. He spends the night drowning
his sorrows and wakes up in a police station with no memory
of the previous night. Turns out he was lying drunk on the
footpath when thieves raided a museum. To prove he had no
connection he tries to help with police work, but his
friend Tank has vanished along with his sports fishing
boat. Buck owns and pilots a small seaplane so, ostensibly
on another hare-brained sunken treasure quest, he sets out
to seek Tank.
The museum thieves are Peruvians wishing to repatriate gold
and silver plundered by Europeans centuries previously, and
the hunt takes Buck from the Bahamas via Panama to Cuba,
where the plane is shot down and he is forced to seek
shelter with local peasant farmers. The Peruvians are
still at large, and bounty hunters are attracted by the
treasure, the FBI is tracking Buck and won't approve of his
landing in Cuba, and his plane looks to be irreparable.
All in a day's work for this adventurer.
Definitely better suited to men, GREEN TO GO focuses more
on tech speak, piloting and navigational aids than on local
people or the beauty of the natural surroundings. The
Florida location makes for inevitable comparison with the
works of Randy Wayne White, but as a fisherman White
reflects more on the environment than does John Cunningham,
who has concentrated on a pacy and sometimes violent serie
of escapades. I felt there was too much dependence on
readers having read the first book and no attempt to ease in
readers who hadn't. But if you read the first and enjoyed
it, doubtless you'll like GREEN TO GO too.
Buck Reilly went to hell and back in Red Right Return. In Green To Go, it's a one-way trip. Good news turns bad fast, and the bad just keeps coming in this thrilling new Buck Reilly adventure. The unexpected contents of his parent's Swiss bank account offer Buck a chance to dig himself out of the hole he's been in since the recession hit, but first he must recover the treasure maps and clues he lost at sea. Those plans get put on hold when a friend is accused of orchestrating the biggest theft in Key West's sordid history, and the FBI uses Buck's past against him to demand that he search for the thieves who fled aboard a hundred year-old schooner.
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