When Shelly points out that there is too much dye for one person to squeeze out, Noah decides to sneak on board with half the dye and flush it from a different toilet. Realizing the problem is that no one has ever been able to trace the sewage spills directly to the Coral Queen, Noah, Abbey, and Shelly come up with a plan, code-named 'Operation Royal Flush': Shelly, who works on the Coral Queen as a bartender, will flush food coloring down the Coral Queen's toilets, dyeing the sewage and marking a trail in the water when it gets dumped.

However, the footage is too dark and blurry to prove anything. Lice is noncommittal, but he later disappears, and his girlfriend Shelly (Dusty's ex-fiancée) offers to help, believing that Dusty may have had Lice killed.Ībbey tries to take matters into her own hands and sneaks out of the house at night with the family's video camera to try to record Dusty Muleman dumping the boat's sewage into the marina. Paine asks for Noah's help in getting a witness statement from Charles 'Lice' Peeking, a former mate on the Coral Queen.

While Paine is publicizing his actions to the media, Noah and Abbey are worried when Abbey hears their mother, Donna, talking about filing for divorce and tells Noah. However, Noah and his younger sister Abbey see that the Coral Queen will be repaired and back in business by the end of the week. Noah's father, Paine, a passionate environmentalist, has been arrested for sinking the Coral Queen, a casino boat operated by 'Dusty' Muleman, whom Paine believes has been illegally dumping sewage from the boat's holding tank into the ocean at night. The narrator of the story is a teenage boy name Noah Underwood.

Flush by carl hiaasen