A Martin Billings Story Series
By Ed Teja
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this series
Martin is in Venezuela to get some documents signed, but the man he is looking for went sailing and didn't come back. Only an ex British spy and a mysterious woman seem to care, and their concern is for the mob money he was holding.
None of that has a thing to do with his mission, but it sticks him in the middle of a mess he has to fix before Ugly Bill gets tired of him playing detective.
~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~
José Renaldo was sleepy. Maria and the kids had been making a racket all day long and he hadn't managed to get any decent sleep.
Sometimes he thought she did it on purpose to punish him. He didn't think that was fair; it wasn't his fault that he worked the night shift.
He didn't like it either. Working nights meant that he could hear the happy noise coming from the cantina near the marina and know that his amigos were having a good time while he stood at the gate to the parking lot in his scratchy uniform and stiff shoes.
He looked up at the handful of people sitting in the marina bar and restaurant. It was an open-air place situated so that the customers could look over the boats sitting peacefully along the docks.
José Renaldo had to admit that on such a clear night, with the stars shining above him, that his wasn't a truly bad job at all. The guards who worked in the daytime had to run errands for the rich marina clients and help them tie up their boats when they came and went.
They worked harder than he did. The only real problem with his job was not being able to go to the cantina and Maria being angry because he wasn't home at night.
This was a Monday and relatively quiet. A Venezuelan man who looked vaguely familiar was sitting at the bar nursing a drink. A few minutes later a French couple stepped off a catamaran talking loudly as they walked up the dock to the stairs that led up to bar.
Still talking, they took a seat at a table. As the waiter took their drink order, José Renaldo wished he spoke French because then he would know what they were talking about. It sounded like an argument, although a subdued one and not at all heated. He enjoyed listening to rich people argue. They fought about different things than his people did. They fought differently too, most of the time.
He watched them wistfully for a time. The woman was tall and lean, a bit skinny for his taste, but nice to dream about despite that. She was older than he was, but an attractive woman that he wouldn't mind being seen with. He envied the man she was with, both for his woman and his boat.
He wondered what it would be like to have money, enough to own a boat and be able to sail it somewhere just to see a new place—anytime you wanted.
Although he'd never been on a sailboat in his life, José Renaldo decided that such a life would be fun, especially if you had money and an attractive woman with you. And if you had money, that kind of money, it was easy to find attractive women.
He heard the scrunch of gravel as a car pulled into the parking lot. Turning his head toward the gate, he recognized the Ford Explorer of Señor Walker.
Walker owned the sailboat tied up at the far end of the dock. Once he had told José Renaldo, for no reason other than to talk to him, that he liked having his boat in that spot because he could come and go with no one paying him much attention.
When he left the marina at night, he could just cast off the lines and slip out quietly through the break in the seawall. No one cared.
As far as José was concerned, no one would have cared no matter where he kept his boat. What did one more sailboat more or less matter? He would still be there, poor and guarding the gate.
Read more from Ed Teja
Imposter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDust Storms May Exist: Southwest Surreal Shorts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lady On The Mountain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Duck Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath With Dignity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost & Unfound: Sherry Proper Noir Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWith Slight Tremors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVisions of Cuba Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChancy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFloat Street Notes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTime and Place: Six Travel Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Martin Billings Story
Related ebooks
Building a Snowman and Five Fables of Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFemale Force: Sarah Palin #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMicroguardians explain HIV and AIDS Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBatty: The Adventures of Boomer and Matilda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecret Lives of Julie Newmar #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLegend of Isis: Image Introduces Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents #25 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Way of Courage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFemale Force: Hillary Clinton: Road to Secretary of State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Caboodle of Cat Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMessages from the Heart of Love - Spirituality Basics in 144 Empowering Quotes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlying Saucers Vs. the Earth #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Muse #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQuatermain #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlying Saucers Vs. the Earth #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIntroductory Business Guide: No Better Time to Start Than Now Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrbit: Mikhail Prokhorov Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwiglet: The Little Christmas Tree Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRun to Win Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolitical Power: Michele Bachmann Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrbit: Bon Jovi Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents #20 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReach Your Dreams: Five Steps to be a Conscious Creator in Your Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents: Tales from the Darkness #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents: Gallery #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlackbeard Legacy #2 Volume 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLegend of Isis: Dogs of War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMud Pups’ Adventures vol. 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales from William F. Nolan's Dark Universe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJustly Poetic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Suspense For You
Fairy Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Perfect Marriage: A Completely Gripping Psychological Suspense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Flicker in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If We Were Villains: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Then She Was Gone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5None of This Is True: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hunting Party: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mr. Mercedes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Turn of the Key Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Flight: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The It Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finders Keepers: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Billy Summers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Housemaid Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Walk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5End of Watch: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Whisper Man: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Maidens: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Good Daughter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for A Martin Billings Story
0 ratings0 reviews