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Sahy veered just as a wave broke on the reef and knocked the stern around “Hold on!” He powered up and compensated

“Lefta little moremore”

“How far to go?”

“Ten h”

Sam looked over his shoulde

r A sas rising twenty feet behind thee

“Gonna get hit,” Sam called “Brace yourself!”

“Alood Give it all you’ve got!”

Sam cranked the throttle to its stops just as the wave broke under the dinghy’s stern Sam felt his belly lurch into his throat For a brief second the prop lifted free of the water with a sputtering whine, then the dinghy was slapped back onto a caloon

Reainst the bow, and let out a sigh “I’ll say it again, Saood time”

“I do what I can Welcooon”

CHAPTER 16

Paradise, dead ahead,” Sahy’s nose

After spending the past eight hours first roasting in the hot sun and then navigating a shark’s oon felt like paradise Roughly one hundred feet in diameter, it was sheltered to the north and south by curved thumbs of land choked with scrub pine and palms The cliff, which rose thirty vertical feet fro banyan trees—the two oat’s horns To the left of the cliff lay a crescent of white sand roughly the size of a standard house deck With the sun on its doard arc toward nightfall, the lagoon was cast in deep shade The water was glass calm In the canopy came a symphony of squawks and buzzes

“Not a bad place to spend the night,” Rereed “Not the Four Seasons, but it does have a certain charht place?”