PROLOGUE

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JOHN B SPEAKING

The Outer Banks, Paradise on Earth.
It's the sort of place where you either have two jobs or two houses.
Two tribes, one island.

Two tribes, one island

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All right. This is Figure Eight, the rich side of the island.
Home of the Kooks. So, guess where we don't live.

And then, this is the south side or the cut.
Home of the working class who make a living busing tables, washing yachts, running charters.
The natural habitat of... drumroll, please...

...the Pogues.
That's us.
- Pogues, pogies, the throwaway fish.
Lowest member of the food chain. Okay. So, the downside of Pogue life is we're ignored and neglected.
But the upside of Pogue life? We're ignored and neglected, which means we do whatever we want, whenever we want.

But the upside of Pogue life? We're ignored and neglected, which means we do whatever we want, whenever we want

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That's 𝗝𝗝 (Maybank) , my best friend since the third grade

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That's 𝗝𝗝 (Maybank) , my best friend since the third grade.
He's about as local as they come.
Latest in a long line of fishing, drinking, smuggling, vendetta-holding salt-lifers who made their living off the water.
Best surfer I know. Just don't tell him I said that.
Mild kleptomaniac and a future tax cheat.

Mild kleptomaniac and a future tax cheat

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𝐽𝑈𝑆𝑇  𝑁𝑂𝑇  𝑌𝐸𝑇  / JJ MAYBANKWhere stories live. Discover now