The next spring, Morgan and mate Wesley are shot by Cuban officials while loading bootleg alcohol and survive a major storm en route to Key West. With the aliens locked below decks and money in hand, Morgan kills Sing and sinks his body. Alcoholic Eddy stows away and proves useful as Morgan double-crosses Sing. Morgan refuses to take his friends along and sets to sea heavily armed. Sing, who wants him to take illegal aliens to Tortugas. Pal Frankie introduces Morgan to a Chinese businessman, Mr. Pleasure boat captain Harry Morgan tells a tale of woe, being swindled by an inattentive sports fisherman after turning down good money to smuggle Cubans into the Florida Keys. The second time proves fatal for Morgan, who is to widow Marie a good man whose kind will not be seen again. Being cheated as a sports fishing guide, Harry Morgan smuggles alcohol and human beings, twice double-crossing the criminals who hire his services. Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is the story of an honest, trusting Floridian who is driven to crime during the Depression.
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