![]() ![]() ![]() He put the ParaNautique winch boat into a big, slow turn that would take them back along the lake's California side. Zavala, who was at the wheel of the boat, waved to show that he had heard Austin's instruction. circle to be squared, connections to be made, and you're not in a position to do it, and we might be. Don't worry, he added with a reassuring smile.We've no interest in disposing of him, I promise. We'll probably have to bring your friend Isaac in. In any case, the upscale cigar-savoring clientele at Swain's was relentlessly Anglo-Saxon, so the presence of a person of color (especially one as impeccably attired as Representative Vasquez-Washington) raised almost as many eyebrows as had the sight of the severed Labrador paw. The lobbyist dropped his voice, for he did not wish to appear to be insulting an Afro-Haitian-Hispanic-Asian-Native American, or any combination thereof (assuming Willie Vasquez-Washington was telling the truth about at least one of the many minorities he professed to be). All that was known about him for certain was that he headed and directed Odyssey, a giant scientific research and construction empire with tentacles in thirty countries that made him one of the richest and most powerful men in the civilized world. His age and history had yet to be revealed. Reporters from newspapers and television news bureaus and stations had failed to penetrate even one layer of his anonymity. He was a man with no name, as enigmatic as a specter, Specter being the name given him by the news media. A man who was photographed only from a distance, and who never revealed lips and chin below the nose while the eyes remained hidden under dark glasses. The man who was the driving force behind the creation of the Ocean Wanderer was arriving for a four-day stay for the first time since the floating hotel's lavish opening the month before. It was with mixed feelings that I gestured for them to sit down.įire! Colonel Wallace shouted on the gate's far side. Personal observations are always admissible, she said rather primly.Others have noted, and she gave him the ghost of a smile, pointing to several of the volumes,their brightness and numbers occur in cycles of seven Turns. I waited patiently until I had their combined attention again. I was certain that there wasn't a pair of eyes before me that didn't flicker surreptitiously around the cabin. None of them examined one another as closely as I observed them all over the rim of my glass, if one pair of eyes remained fixed on mine it could only be because its owner knew who the murderer was and didn't have to bother to look around: but I knew, even as I watched them, that I had no real foundation for any such hope, the murderer may have been no great shakes at physiology but he was far too clever to walk into what, for an intelligent man with five deaths on his conscience, must have been a very obvious trap indeed. ![]() For the first time their eyes left me as they looked quickly and furtively at one another as if in the ludicrous hope that they might by this means discover the identity of the killer. ![]()
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