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    Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea
    Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea
    Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea
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    Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea

    By Darrel Bird

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    The is a sequel to Between Cuba and The Deep Blues Sea. Jim Grady is off on another adventure, as he is hired to rescue a girl a girl that has been kidnapped off her fathers yacht.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMar 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310783012
    Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea - Darrel Bird

      Between Bahama and the Deep Blue Sea

      by Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2014 by Darrel Bird

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      Jim Grady threaded his 36-foot Morgan sailboat, Dancer, into the intracoastal waterway of St. Petersburg and up to the docks. He tossed a line to old Sam Hunter, who had just turned 86: Where you been off too, Jim? I ain’t seen you in a month.

      Old Sam's memory was failing him. Jim had only been out a week. I went down to Key West to check on a barge that was sunk to make a natural reef. What a little job the government of Florida gave me.

      Pay pretty good?

      Enough to keep me eating for a month or so, but my dive tanks are all empty, and I have to pay for air.

      Yeah, times are rough; if I didn’t have social security, I’d starve to death.

      Old Sam lived aboard his sailboat. He didn’t take it out any more, and there were large rust stains running below the chain plates to the water line. He was always there to welcome him home or see him off. Jim would miss the old man when he was gone from this earth, and he noticed he was getting mighty feeble as he tied off the bow line.

      He also noticed a man in a fancy suit sitting on a bollard and smoking a

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