Bahama Crisis by Desmond Bagley

Author:Desmond Bagley [Bagley, Desmond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure

"I

advise you to be cooperative," he said.

"In your own interest and that of your wife."

"I'll answer that if you tell me why he killed my family."

Robinson regarded me thoughtfully.

"No harm in that, I suppose. He killed your family because he is a stupid man; how stupid I am only now beginning to find out. In fact, it is essential that I now find the measure of his stupidity, and that is why you are here. "

He took a pace forward and stood with his hands in his pockets.

"Kayles was supposed to sail from the Bahamas to Miami in his own boat. There was a deadline, but Kayles was having problems something technical to do with boats." Robinson waved the technicality aside.

"At any rate he found he could not meet the deadline. When he heard that a skipper needed a crewman to help take a boat to Miami the next day he jumped at the chance. Do you follow me?"

"So far."

"Now, Kayles was carrying something with him, something important."

Robinson waved his hand airily.

"There is no necessity for you to know what it was. As I say, he is stupid and he let your skipper find it, so Kayles killed him with the knife he invariably carries. His intention was to conveniently lose that poor black man overboard but, unfortunately, the killing was seen by your little girl and then.. " He sighed and shrugged. '.. then one thing led to another. Now, Mr. Mangan, I don't mind telling you that I was very angry 156 about this very angry, indeed. It was a grievous setback to my plans. Disposing of your boat was a great problem, to begin with. "

"You son of a bitch," I said bitterly.

"You're talking about my wife, my daughter and my friend." I stuck my finger out at him.

"And you've no need to be coy about what Kayles was carrying. It was a consignment of cocaine."

Robinson stared at me.

"Dear me! You do jump to conclusions. Now, I wonder…" He broke off and looked up at the roof, deep in thought.

After a while his gaze returned to me.

"Well, we can take that up later, can't we? I've answered your question, Mangan. Now answer mine. How did you trace the idiot?"

I saw no reason not to answer, but I was becoming increasingly chilled. If Robinson saw no reason not to gossip about three murders then it meant that he thought he was talking to a dead man, or a man as good as dead. I said, "I had a photograph of him," and explained how it had come about.

"Ah!" said Robinson.

"So it was the little girl's camera. That really worried Kayles. He was pretty sure she had taken his photograph, but he couldn't find the camera on your boat. Of course, it was a big boat and he couldn't search every nook and cranny, but it still worried him. So he solved his problem as he thought by sinking your boat, camera and all. But it wasn't there, was it? You had it.

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