The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion

Author:Joan Didion [Didion, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Literary
ISBN: 0007454244
Google: VkYTHHEbDaIC
Amazon: B004KABEV0
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1996-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

By the third day she had herself begun noticing the Americans. Several in the coffee shop the night before, all men. Several more in the lobby, laughing together as they stood at the entrance waiting to get into an unmarked armored van.

The van had CD plates.

Swear to Christ, that deal in Chalatenango, I did something like three and a half full clips, one of the Americans had said.

Shit, another had said. You know the difference between one of them and a vampire? You drive a stake through a vampire’s heart, the fucker dies.

No Americans at the pool.

Until now.

She had become aware as she was reading the local paper that one of the men she had seen waiting to get into the van with the CD plates was standing between her chaise and the pool, blocking the tiled walkway, smoking a cigarette as he surveyed the otherwise empty pool area.

His back was to her.

His warm-up jacket was lettered 25TH DIVISION TROPIC LIGHTNING.

She realized that she was reading for the third time the same follow-up on a rash of thefts and carjackings in the immediate vicinity of Cyril E. King International Airport on St. Thomas.

Excuse me, she said. Do you know what time it is.

He flicked his cigarette in the direction of the clock over the pool shack counter.

The clock read 1:10.

She put down the local paper and picked up the Miami Herald.

She continued reading the Miami Herald until she reached page sixteen of the B section.

Page sixteen of the B section of the July 2 Miami Herald, two days late.

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