5/8/2023 0 Comments The english spy silva![]() ![]() Spider Barnes was buzzed and in paradise.īut then he spotted Veronica, and the evening took a dangerous turn. He started at seven o’clock that evening with a few beers, blew a reefer in the shadowed garden at nine, and at ten was contemplating his first glass of vanilla rum. Eddy’s was in his top five in the Caribbean Basin, perhaps his top five worldwide. And when Spider wasn’t behind his stove, he was invariably propped atop one of the better bar stools on dry land. He worked the big charters now, the kind of boats the film stars, rappers, moguls, and poseurs rented whenever they wanted to impress. ![]() Spider had done New York, San Francisco, and an unhappy layover in Miami before leaving the restaurant biz for good and taking to the freedom of the sea. Spider, you see, was classically trained. Spider was regarded as the finest waterborne chef in the entire Caribbean, irascible but altogether irreplaceable, a mad genius in a starched white jacket and apron. ![]() None of it would have happened if Spider Barnes hadn’t tied one on at Eddy’s two nights before the Aurora was due to set sail. ![]()
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