Between Louisiana and the Deep Blue Sea

By Darrel Bird

Jim Grady is off on another adventure, this time by land as he rescues another kidnapped girl.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Darrel Bird
• Release date: Sep 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311059666

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 Louisiana and the Deep Blue Sea

by Darrel Bird

Copyright 2014 by Darrel Bird

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Chapter one

Jim Grady tossed the dock lines to old Sam Hunter, who had just turned 87 last week. Where have you been, Jim?

I went up to the mouth of the Suwannee River on a dive job for the government; did the check for that last dive job come in the mail?

No, and I doubt if you’ll ever see a dime from the state of Florida; why do you keep working for them?

I don’t really know Sam.

Well, there’s a fellow with one of those smarty cars all in a sweat to see you about something. He’s probably wanting to hire you. I called him to come down when I saw your boat coming down the channel. He'll meet you over at Hooligans, he said.

To Sam, a smart car was anything made after the year '90.

Ok, Sam, as soon as I get the boat squared away, I’ll go over there and see what he wants.

Hooligans was a bar and restaurant that catered to the sailing crowd in St. Petersburg. Jim walked from the docks to his old Ford pickup. The old engine groaned and then coughed a time or two before it went into a somewhat smooth idle. He had thought about getting a new truck after the Fulmer job but never got around to it. He had courted Fulmer’s daughter for a while, but he was out to sea so much that a real relationship just never got off the ground.

He had given the money Fulmer had paid him to his brother’s church to build new Sunday school rooms after he had overhauled the Dancer, his thirty-six-foot sailboat, and now he was broke because the government owed him for four dive jobs. If he didn’t get some cash, he wouldn’t be able to outfit the boat for another dive job.

He drove the half mile to Hooligans and pulled into the parking lot alongside a limo, which stuck