Flush

Abstract

Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, live in Florida with their mother, who is a part-time legal secretary, and their father, who is in jail for sinking a gambling boat. The father wants Noah to help him convict the boat owner, Dusty Muleman, for pouring raw sewage directly into the water. While the father publicizes his cause and tries to control his temper, Noah and Abbey cooperate with Dusty’s former fiancé to pour dye into the ship’s toilets and expose the crime. The father’s publicity gets the attention of his own father, an adventurer and emerald smuggler, who disappeared and was declared dead, ten years before. He returns and helps Noah and Abbey battle the owner, the owner’s bullying son and friend, and the ship’s bodyguards. The dye plan works, but Dusty is only fined ten-thousand dollars. When Dusty throws a reopening party, his own son and friend accidentally burn the ship, and prove that karma can be stronger than the law.