Skink--No Surrender
“Marine Corps in Afghanistan. He’d been born in New Orleans and lived there until he was eleven, when his family moved to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. There, Talbo played first-string guard on his high school basketball team. His dad worked at a boatyard; his mother was a bookkeeper and secretary for an Episcopal church.Talbo had just turned nineteen when the supply truck he was driving got blown to pieces by a roadside bomb in a place called Salim Aka, which Skink said was in the dangerous provi...nce of Kandahar. Two other Marines in the vehicle survived their injuries, but Talbo died three weeks later at a military hospital in Germany.And now somebody had stolen his name, somebody who’d tricked my cousin Malley into running away with him.“How’d you find out all this?” I asked Skink.“Reliable source,” he said. “The Pensacola paper ran a short story about Corporal Chock’s death. It would have been a bigger story—should have been—except a hurricane was clipping the Panhandle the same day.MoreLess
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Guest 3 years ago
Another great story by Hiaasen. Enough plot to be believable even when it might seem a little unbelievable.Write Review:
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