Hawaiian Hangover

A man is buried alive on the beach watched by a shadowy figure.
A son returns to the island to bury his father and gets caught up in the Hawaiian criminal underworld.
He struggles against his base nature of greed, selfishness, fear, anger, hatred, love, and lust as he seeks out
his need for a homeland. When all seems lost, he strikes it rich, then has to figure out how to stay one step ahead of the criminals and the cops.
A noir-novel well researched showing the shady times in Hawaiian history when the criminals dominated the islands.