TOM CORCORAN is the author of "The Mango Opera," "Gumbo Limbo," "Bone Island Mambo," and "Octopus Alibi," He has been a disc jockey, Navy officer, screenwriter, journalist, and magazine editor. His photographs have appeared on seven Jimmy Buffett album covers, and he co-wrote the Buffet hits "Fins" and "Cuban Crime of Passion." Corcoran lives in the Lower Keys.