Hunter''s Moon by Randy Wayne White

Author:Randy Wayne White [White, Randy Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-11-03T17:41:34.719000+00:00

“So far, so good. My Secret Service guys are getting antsy, but they still believe I’m locked away in my cabin, meditating.” He sounded relieved.

when i returned to the fuel docks, i was carrying

two Styrofoam cups filled with ice and Tuborg beer. I knew the president wanted to be back aboard by midnight so he could make his nightly shortwave contact.

We found a bench facing the harbor. No Más’s anchor light was a white star among many clustered off Christmas Island.

“That smell . . . heat and rain”—Wilson sniffed as if tasting— “it hasn’t changed.”

At night, a bubble of Caribbean darkness envelopes Key West insulating the island from the mainland. Air molecules are dense, weighted with jasmine, asphalt, the musk of shaded houses. Rain on coral; heat, too.

“When I was in the Navy, we were stationed here for six weeks. The air base off Garrison Bight—I’d just completed amphibian training in San Diego, and we were still flying the Grummans. I didn’t want to leave. When I finished my hitch, I wanted to come back and run a charter boat. Maybe buy a seaplane and fly tourists to the Tortugas and Bahamas.”

“Why didn’t you?”

“It was Wray. She had a higher calling. The woman was born with a need to serve. We couldn’t have children, and I’m not the religious type. So we went into politics.”

“Not religious?” His month in a monastery, the interest in Zen—then both were precedents for severing contact with security people.

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