Clint and family are enjoying their last two weeks this trip at their place in Quebrada Tula. Basilio, from Cusapín, is visiting. They are sitting on the porch at sunset, which is spectacular. Basilio says there is going to be trouble. It is in the signs. It will involve people on the comarca, but will not be from the comarca.Clint remembers other times when Basilio made predictions based on a special sunset. He figured he could depend on hearing...

Omar is in the cantina talking with a semi-pretty hippie type girl who seems a bit spaced out. She writes weird poetry and likes adventure. She is going kite riding tomorrow.Omar says that's not safe along the coast. She could end up a bloody mess on the rocks.She replies that everybody dies sometime.He says he'll delay death as long as he can.She says, "When your time comes, you die. Death doesn't wait for anyone".It certainly didn't wait for her....

"I was passing by on the road and saw them there by the rock. I watched a few seconds, but they were dead still."Well, I saw there was a Squirrel Cuckoo in that bush, so figured they were watching it. They spook easy."The cuckoo flew off, so I came down here after I called and they didn't answer."There they were Like that ""Like that " was a bullet in the head.

Clint is in David for supplies. He will spend the night, then return to Quebrada Tula where he and his family are staying.He is at Peter's Bar when he meets Sam Hires, who says he's made a killer deal for a fishing boat. He gets all the permits and such to do with it. It will run out of Mariato, which Clint knows.Sam probably didn't mean "killer" deal the way it turned out.Or did he?

A ship sitting outside the harbor at Chiriqui Grande. It's been there two days and no sign of life. Naldo says it seems to just be dead in the water.The captain was.

Clint is in Pedasi, visiting friends. There is a man there who is known for various scams that rob people of their property and money. He is in a casino with three local girls and is winning at blackjackMario says he sure is living it up the easy way. Maybe sometimes crime does payClint replies that living the easy way, in that one's case, can lead to dying the hard way. The scam artist dies - the hard way. The really hard way

Clint meets a woman on a flight and arranges to show her Bocas Town. There is the discovery of buried treasure, a murder, crime lords from Colombia ... how is all this connected?

The regular group sitting in The Golden Grill are discussing the way a local con man had stolen the life savings of a resident from England. They are talking about how the corrupt court system will let him get away with it.Roland Eggars, himself a Britisher, says the way those people were able to manipulate the judges and police was a bloody shame. Sooner or later someone would come along and put an end to some of their practices.It was sooner.

A woman with a malicious personality is being poisoned by her children - isn0t she? Things don't seem quite right. Clint's investigation turns ip some very interesting facts!

"A generous dollop of fresh creamery butter, a touch of mild curry, a teaspoon of nice fresh basil from my own garden, a little salt, a dash of black pepper, and a taste of culantro"Bake for thirty five minutes at three seventy five. Chill, and add a smidgen of murder Serve over curried chilled cheese pasta."Are you going away, with no word of farewell?"Time to get dressed I do want to look good for this "