Garden of Evil
“Jim realized, though, that William ‘Billy’ Rook had been no more than thirty-six when he had walked into the ocean, which was nearly four years younger than Jim was now.
He was soaking wet, drenched. Seawater was pouring from his sleeves and his thinning dark brown hair was plastered down on either side of his head. All the same, he was smiling, and he was holding out his arms, like a man who has just completed a record-breaking swim – which, in a spiritual way, he had. He had been swimming continuously for thirty-three years – or drowning, rather.
He looked so much like Jim’s grandfather, with his sharp pointed nose and his heart-shaped face and his little clipped moustache. Jim’s mother had always wanted him to shave off his moustache because she said it made him look like a card sharp or a door-to-door salesman, but Jim’s father had insisted on keeping it, because Rook men had worn moustaches for generations. Jim was the first Rook who hadn’t grown a moustache since the mid-1900s, ...when Los Angeles was nothing more than a single main street and a cluster of wooden oil derricks.MoreLess
He was soaking wet, drenched. Seawater was pouring from his sleeves and his thinning dark brown hair was plastered down on either side of his head. All the same, he was smiling, and he was holding out his arms, like a man who has just completed a record-breaking swim – which, in a spiritual way, he had. He had been swimming continuously for thirty-three years – or drowning, rather.
He looked so much like Jim’s grandfather, with his sharp pointed nose and his heart-shaped face and his little clipped moustache. Jim’s mother had always wanted him to shave off his moustache because she said it made him look like a card sharp or a door-to-door salesman, but Jim’s father had insisted on keeping it, because Rook men had worn moustaches for generations. Jim was the first Rook who hadn’t grown a moustache since the mid-1900s, ...when Los Angeles was nothing more than a single main street and a cluster of wooden oil derricks.MoreLess
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