Key Weird by Robert Tacoma

Author:Robert Tacoma
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789085241522
Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Published: 2004-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Sam

Sam Turbano sat at the end of the bar. He drank coffee while casting a seasoned, judgmental eye over the early shift of losers filtering into the Pink Snapper. He hocked up a wad, spit on the floor, and mumbled something to the bartender, who quickly refilled his coffee cup. Nobody else even looked at Sam. He was a dried-up old man in a rumpled suit, sitting in a dark, dingy, topless bar in the middle of the afternoon on a bright sunny day.

Sam didn’t care about going outside in the brilliant sunlight these days; the light hurt his eyes. He’d spent most of his life out in the sun, diving for treasure and raising hell around Key West. As a young man, Sam had made a reputation for himself in the Keys as a selfish and quarrelsome bastard. The only thing that had changed as he got older was that he got older. He was a mean old cuss.

Sam had always liked money and women. He also liked hiring and firing people, mostly firing. That’s why when he found the mother lode treasure years ago, he’d bought the Pink Snapper with part of his money.

Rumor had it that Sam had screwed his partners out of shares of the treasure when they finally hit it big. People said there was even more treasure on that old ship than what had been brought in, and that Sam had it hidden away somewhere. There were threats and lawsuits for years. Sam finally won by simply outliving all his former partners.

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