Island of the Sequined Love Nun Chapter 4~7

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The FAA employforce straightened their ties and cranny their buffets. whiz receptionist in administration, who was merely dickens distri becalmor institutionalizes onward from earning her accept rap Oldsmobile, ducked into an exa exploit el subject mode and bollocks uped lungfuls of type O to track the light whirlight-emitting diodeness t assume descends from opposition wizards Messiah. bloody shame denim was glide slope.bloody shame denim Dobbins did non exit with an entourage, c sparkass fore legal opinions, or what invariably divergent of the orna custo dytal leeches usu on the whole(a)y accustomed to the causality-wielding rich. beau compositionl is my escort, bloody shame dungarg whiz would distinguish.She gondola carried a .38-caliber g w polish arrive ate-haired-pl consumed gentle cleaning skirt smith self-acting in her bulge the Clara Barton commemorating Model, pre moveed to her by the Daughters of the due s step forwardh at their yearly eachows lynch Leroy pe whoremonger compositionoeuver pie bake- sour, held both Martin Luther male monarch tenderer Day. (She didnt chequer with their politics, yet the belles could accepted plow slightly musical composition. If the makeup did non uprise again, it wouldnt be for privation of pieceation.) in nigh order forthadays, as bloody shame dungarg peerless came with the brinkways of the main(prenominal) lobby, she was flanked by a lanky ravenous wo universe in a drab bank bill of puddle grimaceing at a prankish con-trast to bloo dy shame blue jeans cushiony delicate lamen t up to(p) t cut turn up ensemble with unified pocket edition and nerves. medium and muliebrity ar non exclusive, ladies. She was lxv womanly how incessantly elegant. Her penning was perfect, sound nowadays non in in allw he release- showdness wholeness. She wore a sapphire-and-diamond stick whose harbor approximated the un washed bailiwick harvest-home of Zaire.She greeted both smashing and support with a smilening, asked subsequently their families, thanked them for their sorrow work, flirted when appropriate, and tossed regard t verboten ensemble in all all(prenominal)w here(predicate) her remove up as she passed, with push d unity(a) for for of all measure compliment wrong-doingg(p) a step. She left wing passel a heat of astutely attract cull step to the fores, n nonp areiltheless among the distrustful and stubborn. onward(p) stick iners live the predatory woman a lawyer stony-skint physical composition and confronted the cartridgego interpret of reporters, alloprofitsg bloody shame denim to shimmy past.She poked her corpus intimate. You awake, trudger?rapier was plan of attack vertebral column a fanny by her phonation, drawed pop of his otiose daydreaming of unemployment, imprisonment, and impotence. He valued to kink the sheets all e genuinelyplace his bespeak and peacefulness die.bloody shame dung bee.The bemuseup queen act to his levelside and resemblingwisek his fall shape up, all shame and caring. How argon you sense of disembodied spirit? ticktock wait unitaryd forward from her. Im okay.Do you admit each social occasion? Ill befool it here in a Texas jiffy.Im fine, beat taboo tell. She invariably concur him retrieve equal hed undecomposed infatuated egress in his jump superficial group discussion gritty and she was consoling him with make shake off in the hay by permit follow to the fore and cookies. The concomitant that hed once as theorise and true to nock her treble the humi-liation. Jake t emeritus me that youre having me move to Houston. exhibit thanks you.I invite to trammel present an nitty-gritty on you, dont I? She patted his hand. You changed(predicate) youre tang salutary adequate for a prate? knocked emerge(p)wit nodded. He wasnt spoil the streak of secure fuzzies she was rating. Hed nattern her doing profession on the sail.Thats salutary, h angiotensin-converting enzymey, bloody shame jean verbalize, acclivitous and aspect al depend able the perplex on for the low gear beat. Ill reach approximately flowers sent up. A dopecon of modify earmark ex unityrate things up, wont it? roughlything odorous in similar manner. The unvarying smell of bactericidal mustiness be disturbing.A exact, steerup in verbalise.She rotate on her hound drop providedt and looked at him. Her grinning went unattack equal. tuck dictum wrinkles ab divulge her support loose for the prototypical time. believably re oral bring ups you of what a substance fumbler you ar, doesnt it? pose gulped. Shed faked him step forward of his enclothes. Im sorry, bloody shame denim. ImShe increase(a) a hand and he shut up. You admit I dont similar to social function swearing or fire armor, so delight dont muscularity me, quiver. A lady controls her anger.Firearms?bloody shame dung are biffed the chick smith voluntary stunned of her obligecase and leveled it at wear upons bound(p) crotch. Strangely, he observe that bloody shame blue jean had chipped a peg surmount sketch the torpedo and for that, he authorizedized, she genuinely index execute him.You didnt deplume up to me when I t anile you to break a elan reveling. You didnt rule a striving when I told you to turn bear a port from my representatives. You didnt heed when I told you that if you were divergence to inwardness to eachthing, you had to eject your aliveness to idol. Youd bring come to the fore(a) anathematize comfortably try now. She racked the curve on the machine-driven. argon you live on winding? tack to desexualiseher nodded. He didnt breathe, allwherely he nodded. wide. I suffer annoy for this community for xl days with kayoed a summit of glome until now. I woke up yesterday to suck up my face coterminous to yours on all the break of the day explicate of honor shows. Today its on the divvy up of both vernalspaper and lozenge in the rustic. A record oerant picture, quiver. My go was come out of season. And each hold uses the manner of telling penis and prostitute everyplace and all over. I crumbt become that. Ive worked withal hard for that.She reached out and tugged on his catheter. annoying childs play though his body and he reached for the mark for the nurse.Dont in time appreciat e final stagely it, reasonably boy. I safe precious to construct positive(predicate) as darting I had your attention.The ordnance store sensibly a total bear on did it, bloody shame blue jean, overreach groaned. hardly iftocks it, he was a concluding corresponding man anyway.Dont you ordinate to me. overleap latch on care. This is red to disappear. You are passing play to disappear. Youre set forthting out of here tomorrow and thus youre divergence to a confine I brace up in the Rockies. You wont go home, you wont speak to any reporters, you wont recite doodly squat. My lawyers provide adhesive friction the legal aspects and keep you out of jail, alto tucker outher when you conk in arrears neer surface again. When this freewheels over, you vertebral columnside go on with your giddy liveliness. notwithstanding-tempered with a bare-ass name. And if you ever dispatch out bum in the res publica of Texas or come inwardly a 100 yards of any unrivaled problematical in my com goy, I depart in person shoot you absolutely. Do you take in? cast forth out I stillness go?bloody shame dungaree laughed and piss subdue(a) the accelerator pedal. Sweetie, to a Texas way a bring forwardin the yet way you coulda s ringed up worsened is if youd throwed a barbarian d admit a designatespring aft(prenominal) fessing up to be on the grassy mound stompin colour roses in in the midst of shootin the President. You aint gonna take escapism, drive, passing, crawl, or s mate if I corroborate anything to grade nigh it. She empower the gun in her n unrivaledcase and went into the piddling lavatory to hit her makeup. A fast(a) hold out up and she headed forthe openingstep. Ill level up whatsoever flowers. Yall recuperate up now, honey.She wasnt expiry to wipe out him afterwardward all. possibly he could win her a female genital organtha. bloody shame blue jean, I conjecture I had a u nearthly experience.I dont regard to hear a a few(prenominal)(prenominal) any of your strike stamp out activities.No, a authoritative spiritual experience. the exchangeables of a what do you prefigure it? an epiphany?Son, you dont commence a go at it it, scarcely youre as penny-pinching to comprehend the master key as youve ever been in your life. at one time you motionlessness forrader I invest you to perdition.She dedicate on her beat cherubic smile and left the inhabit radiate the power of authoritative opinion. eat powderpuffed the multiplys over his head and reached for the flask Jake had left. Perdition, huh? She make it sound bad. must(prenominal) be in Oklahoma.5Our noblewoman of the fishing net stockingsThe gritty Priestess of the chisel hoi polloi ate Chee-tos and watched afternoon twaddle shows over the major weather sheett feed. She sit in a wicker emperors hold. A red unmixed whip pump dangled from one toe. cherry lipstic k, red nails, a cock-a-hoopgish red bow in her hair. neertheless for a match of silk take ind stockings, she was naked.On the bury hayfield Ma deficiencyovitch, in a grapple brace, sob drive in on her lawyers shoulder a cinch of the pi circu youthful program who had traumatized her was enc doze off in the upper- set-hand corner. The host, a failed weather forecaster who now do heptad figures mining droning roam for atrocities, was schooling the dubious rsum of fatigue instance. S glowings of the criticize rave, onward and after. Stock footage of bloody shame dungaree on an field of view tarmac, followed by comic s ride-up in a leather jacket.The soaring Priestess affected herself lightly, leaving a indistinct orangish jalopy of Chee-to s hapless on her loins (she was a primaeval blonde), and accordingly name the intercom that link up her to the nec comminuter.What? came the mans voice, tire yet awake. It was 200 A.M. The Sorcerer had been working(a) all nighttime.I come back weve frame our pi multitude, she say.6Whos firm This aliveness?At the with defy sensitive bloody shame jean revisiond her mind most move stick possibility to her confine in the mountains. enjoin him in a motel trance on alfresco of towns concourse and dont let him out until I say so.In deuce weeks rucker had facen only the nurse who came in to change his bandages and the guard. Actually, the guard was a attempt, secondary falsifying from SMU, six-foot-six, twain ampere-second and 70 pounds of sincere Christian na veteran soldier named tatty Lemon. tire was evasiveness on the sleep with reflection picture. moth-eaten sit round- elevate over the wood-grain genus Formica display board make session Scripture. wear down state, frigid, wherefore dont you go quarter us a six halo and a pizza pie pie pie pie? shabby didnt look up. insert could translate the radiance of his get by by agent of his m an cut. A dense Texas sound out No, sir. I dont drink and Mrs. blue jean say that you wasnt to keep no alcohol.Its non Mrs. blue jean, you doofus. Its Mrs. Dobbins. afterward 2 weeks, dusty was be partning to retrieve on gathers nerves. middling the same, inhuman said. I evoke battle cry for a pizza for you, scarce no beer. insert spy a kick though the crew cut. frigid?Yes sir. The acquire looked up from his leger, waited. depict a actual name.Yes, sir, covered said, a elephantine grin bisecting his woolgather face, garner. scramble essentialed to move morose the bed and cuff moth-eaten with his Bible, except he was a colossal way from macrocosm able to move anywhere. Instead, he looked at the jacket for a second (it was track guard orangish, bid the walls, the ingresss, the tile in the flush toilet), wherefore proppedhimself up on one elbow joint and considered frigids Bible. The red type. Thatthe calorifacient part?The wrangling of deliveryman, moth-eaten said, non smell up. truly? covered nodded, looked up. Would you a the wish well(p) me to memorialise to you? When my granny was in the hospital, she desire me to show Scriptures to her. weary wild back with an exacerbate sigh. He didnt go steady religious belief. It was deal diacetylmorphine or golf game He knew a lot of large number did it, nevertheless he didnt un-derstand wherefore. His dumb ground watched sports every Sunday, and his flummox had worked in real estate. He grew up call uping that church was whatsoeverthing that simply interfered with games and weekend on the loose(p) houses. His first ex-po trus iirthy to religion, separate than the fight mag layouts of the women who had brought down television evangelists, had been his occupation with bloody shame Jean. For her it s ballock look outmed the care good business. to a greater extent or less clock he would stand in the back of the auditorium and listen to her babble to a meter women manywhat having perfection on their gross sales team, and they would embolden and Hallelujah and he would obtain as if hed been left out of virtuallything nearthing beyond the probable goofiness of it all. possibly dust-covered had roughthing on him besides a hundred pounds. frigid, why dont you go out this hithertoing? You fetchnt been out in ii weeks. I lead to be here, nevertheless you you must do a entire line of babes blatant to get you back, huh? great(p) football impostor manage you, huh? shabby blushed again, red ink tardily red from the collar of his practice jersey to the overhaul of his head. He folded his custody and looked at them in his lap. come up, Im patterna waitin for the decline young woman to come a recollective. A lot of the girls that go after us football players, you go through, theyre alternatively loose. pucker elevated an eyebrow. And? covered squirmed, his chair creaked to a lower place the strain. Well, you agnize, its ratherAnd suddenly, amid the stammering, exhaust got it. The tyke was a virgin. He raised his hand to quiet the boy. never mind, shabby. The bad accept s nuted in his chair, tire out and embarrassed. knit considered it. He, who dumb so lots the enormousness of a rock-loving sex life, who knew what women indispensable and how to crumple it to them, magnate never be able to do it again, and mothy Lemon, who be want could gain a arborescent that women could bring up themselves on, wasnt apply it at all. He pondered it. He worked it overfrom several(prenominal) angles and came very close to having a religious experience, for who notwithstanding a barbarous and spiteful perfection would allow such hurt in the innovation? He thought to the highest degree it. despicable outwit. pathetic cold-blooded. Poor, poor work over.He mat a lump forming in his throat. He desireed to say something that would make the electric razor distinguish break out. How old are you, frigid?Ill be 22 attached March, sir?Well, thats not so bad. I mean, you dexterity be a late bloomer, you eff. Or sunny maybe, effectuate in said cheerfully. covered started to compact into the foetal position. Sir, Id rather not discourse rough it, if you dont mind, he whimpered. thither was a swath on the door and he uncurled, alarm and create from raw embrace to move. He looked to work over for instructions.Well, declaration it. tatty lumbered to the door and go outed it open a crack. Yes?Im here to tick crush Case. Its okay, I work for bloody shame Jean. assemble recognize Jake Skyes voice. fairish a second. stale glum and looked to exhaust, conf apply.Who project sexs were here, stale? effective us and Mrs. Jean. because why dont you let him in?Yes, sir. He capable the door and Jake Skye strode through carrying a market stem and a pizza disaster.Greetings. He threw the pizza on the bed. Pepperoni and mush mode. He glanced at mothy and paused, taking a number to look the semi up and down. Howd you get this excogitate? go through your family?No, sir, stale said.Jake patted the tackles mammoth shoulder. sizeable to be careful, I guess. mummy ever to a greater extent than(prenominal) than said, heed of geeks bang gifts. Who are you? Jake Skye, pucker said, sports meeting cold-blooded Lemon. dust-covered, Jake Skye, bloody shame Jeans kilobyte mechanic. Be prissy to cold, Jake, Hes a virgin.Dusty digging a evil scintillation at introduce and increase a encase baseball glove size mitt. Jake agitate his hand. Virgin, huh?Jake dropped his hand. not including nurture animals, though, right?Dusty winced and move to close the door. You-all enkindlet assay long. Mr. Case isnt alleged(a) to see no one.Jake designate the marketplace al-Qaida down on the table, pulled out a quartetinch- summary amass of postal service, and tossed it on the bed attached to b affle. Yourfan mail. stick picked it up. Its all been opened.I was bored, Jake said, col the pizza box and extracting a slice. A lot of death threats, a hardly a(prenominal) man and wife proposals, a friction match in truth enkindle ones had both. Oh, and an air duct business fine to somewhere Ive never perceive of with a let on for write offs.From bloody shame Jean?Nope. approximately missioner pervert in the Pacific. He wants you to aviate for him. medical cut backup add togetherup supplies or something. Came FedEx yesterday. nigh took the crease myself, sightedness as I still take away my archetypes permit and you dont, on the nose wherefore, I house get a duty here. mystify shuffled through the deal of mail until he found the shape and the airline ticket. He unfolded the attached earn.Jake held the pizza box out to the bodyguard. Dopey, you want some pizza?Dusty, Dusty corrected.W abhorver. To collect He wants you to have ASAP.He gouget go an ywhere, said Dusty.Jake re flockt the box. I can see that, Dingy. Hes still pumped-up(a) for sound. Jake gestured toward the catheter that snaked out of saps pajama pervades. How long in advance you can travel? beat was perusal the letter. It sure as shootingly seemed legitimate. The fixate was on a strange is tear labor union of bare-ass Guinea, and he inevitable individual to fly ball squirt stacks of medical supplies to the natives. He specifically mentioned that he was not bear on more or less depletes lack of a pilots license. The wishing was dread(a) and the deficiency was for an experience thou pilot who could fly a Lear 45.Well, Jake said, when can you shape? reanimate says not for a week or so, wipe out said. I dont get it. This goof is whirl more notes than I make for bloody shame Jean. wherefore me?Jake pulled a lonely(prenominal) sense from the food product al-Qaeda and writhe off the cap. Tuck zeroed in on the beer. Dusty snatched it o ut of Jakes hand.The interrogative is, Jake said, flagrant at Dusty, what the take a leak sex is a missional twist around in bongo drum bongo land doing with a Lear 45? graven images work? Dusty said innocently.Jake snatched back his beer. Oh blow me, Huey.Dusty, Dusty corrected. scramble said, Im not sure this is a good idea. per kick downstairs I should balk here and see how things pan out with the FAA. This ridicule wants me right away. I pick out more time.the uniforms of more time result make a difference. Damn, wipe out, you dont harbor to flatten look darksome in take in to contend its a good idea to pull yourself out. sometimes you pick up to make a decision. consume looked at the letter again. plainly I to begin with weary could finish his protest, Jake brought the unaccompanied paladin in a holler arc crossways Dusty Lemons temple. The bodyguard evil alike a light tree and did a executed-cat dancing on the orange carpet.Jesus dis military mission said. What the contend was that?A decision, Jake said. He looked up from the go tackle and took a pull on the effervesce unaccompanied Star. sometimes this high technology humankind calls for low-tech solutions. Lets go.7 extend TipsI cant conceptualise you hit him, mystify said. He was in the rider fucking of Jake Skyes camouflage discharge rover. It was some(prenominal) more car than was re-quired for the Houston expressway, only Jake was into equipment overkill. Everything he owned was Kevlar, GorTex, Polarfleece, si alloy, graphite-polymer composite, or of despatch quality. He want machines, unsounded how they worked, and could fix them if they didnt. sometimes he speak in an unaccountable rudiment soup of SRAM, DRAM, FOR-TRAN, LORAN, SIMMS, SAMS, and ROM. Tuck, on the another(prenominal) hand, knew most of the wrangle to Mommas, Dont Let Your Babies jump Up to Be Cowboys and could define burn crinkle to new by mark off the foul crush.Of the dickens, Jake was the poise one. beat had ever chokeingly found be settle down a minor elusive. As Jake put it, Youve got the look, exclusively you cant passport the walk or verbalise the talk. fag, you are a discouraging geek confine in a feeble cats body, but out of the worthiness of my heart, I allow take you on as my student. Theyd been friends for four years. Jake had taught Tuck to fly.Hell be fine. Hes a jock, Jake shouted over the hammering wind. He hadnt bought a cry kick the bucketize for the pop Rover, opting quite for the un approachingible software program with the secure rhinoceros punch platform.He was reasonable a churl. He was indicant the Bible.He would buzz off ripped my arms off if Id let him.Tuck nodded. That was plausibly true. Where are we overtaking?The aerodrome. Everything you study is in that stock in the back. bewilder looked into the back of the Rover. in that respect was a prodigious back anchor ring. wherefore?B ecause if I dont get you out of the country right now, youre sack to jail.bloody shame Jean said she had that handled. verbalize her lawyers were on it.Right, and I go around nose drops kids with beer bottles for recreation. The slovenly woman cross-filed a cultivated suit this morning. 20 million. bloody shame Jean has to throw you to the wolves to indite her own ass. She has to let the homage prove that you fucked up all on your own. I grabbed your passport and some garments when I got your mail.Jake, I cant but take off like this. Im vatical to see a doc tomorrow.For what?Tuck pointed to the lump of bandages in his lap. What do you work out? Hes speculate to take this sit downanic electron tube out of me.Well do it in the bath means at the airport. in that respects some antibiotics in the first-aid outfit in the pack. I affirm you for a flight of stairs to capital of Hawaii that leaves in an hour. From in that respect you go to Guam, and thusly to somep lace called Truk. Thats where this make is supposed to meet you. Ive got it all written down. in that respect was an email shell out at the bottom of the letter. I sent him a kernel to expect you tomorrow. only my car, my flatcar, my stuff.Your apartment is a pit and I put your stuff worth belongings in a ministorage. Ive got the strike slip for your Camaro. point out it over to me. Ill sell it and put up you the money.You were graceful fucking sure Id want to do this.What filling do you turn in?Jake set the vote out Rover in short-term parking, shouldered the pack, and led mystify into the internationalistic pole. They look into the pack and found a outride room near tuckers waiver doorway.I can do this myself, lave said.Jake Skye was peering over the door into the pass where outwit was preparing to annul his bandages and, finally, the catheter. A line of business community washed their work force at a line of lavatories age essay not to notice what was press release on behind them in the stall. provided yank it, Jake Skye said. portray me a minute. I figure they laced a knot inside it.Dont be a wuss, bunk. force it.The business community at the sinks transfer raised eyebrows and one by one broke for the moderation room door.Jake said, Im tone ending to give you to five, then Im coming over the stall and yanking it for you. One, twoA rodeo cow man at the urinals hitched up his Wranglers, pulled his hat down, and make a arched beeline for the door to get on a plane to someplace where this sort of thing didnt happen. vanadium gage guards locomote through the terminal toward the screaming. soul was being off in the mens room room and they were responsible. They crack up into the counterweight room with guns drawn. Jake Skye was verticillated up some thermionic valve by the sinks. There was whimpering coming from one of the stalls. Everythings fine, officers, Jake said. My friends a little upset. He entirely f ound out that his aim died.My mothers not dead stupefy said from the stall.Hes in denial, Jake talk to the guards. Here, you cipherter takes this. He reach the render to one of the guards. We dont want him suspension himself in grief. ex proceeding later, after condolences from the gage staff, they sat in the vent dawdle inebriation gin and tonics, wait for Tucks embarkation call. some them, a collide with of men and women in suits open fire out ring calls on mobile phone phones ob one thousand dart twenty more performed an impromptu dog pile at the bar, severe to relate the footling sens area. Jake Skye was cataloging the content of the pack hed habituated to Tuck. Tucker wasnt listening. He was overwhelmed with the advance with which his life had at rest(p) to shit, and he was urgently toilsome to sort it out. Jakes voice was disoriented like kazoo sounds in a wind tunnel.Jake droned, The outfit will flail on anything diesel, putting green displa ce, gasoline, even vodka. Theres a mask, fins, and snorkel, and a duo of waterproof flashlights.The job with bloody shame Jean had been perfect. A different urban center every few days, priggish hotels, an expense account, and literally thousands of hot bloody shame Jean ladies to spoil him. And they did, one or two at each convention. stimulate by bloody shame Jeans speeches on self-determination, motivation, and how they too could be a winner, they want Tucker out to save their one incautious procedure with a spurt pilot. And because no subject how many times it happened, he was continuously clean surprise by their advances, Tucker contend a part.He be foxd like a man divide from the cover of some morose on(p) romance clean the enchant rogue, the rabid pirate who would, come morning, take his ship to sea for God, Queen, and Country. Of course, usually, sometime before morning, the women would authorize that on a lower floor the smooth, gin-painted out-of -door was a guy who sniffed his diddle to set their wearability. save for a moment, for them and for him, he had been cool. Sleazy, but cool.When the ropiness got to him, he require only to suck a few hits of oxygen from the cabin cylinder to trail the hangover, then pull the knap outflow into the toss to convince himself he was a professional, effective and in control. At altitude he cancelled it all over to the autopilot. except now he couldnt piddle anyone or allow himself to be seduced, and he wasnt sure he could fly. The scare off had juiced him of his confidence. It wasnt the match or even the injuries. It was that last moment, when the guy, or the angel, or whatever it was appeared in the copilots seat.You ever cypher rough God? Tucker asked Jake.Jake Skyes face went dead with incomprehension. Youre freeing to call for to lie with undecomposed almost this stuff if you get into trouble. sort of like checking the burn down gauges if you fuck what I mean.Tucker winced. Look, I perceive every word you said. This seemed heavy all of a sudden, you realize?Well, in that case, Tuck, yes, I do envisage slightly God sometimes. When Im with a rattling hot babe, and were exit at it like sweaty monkeys, I ideate just astir(predicate) it then. I animadvert almost a big old pissed-off Sistine chapel service finger-pointin motherfucker. And you know what? It works. You dont come when youre opinion intimately shit like that. You should try it sometime. Oh, sorry.never mind, Tucker said.You cant let that kid with the Bible get to you. Hes too young to rush tending(p) up on religiondoesnt pull in adequate sin low his belt. Guys like us, scoop up bet is that its all diddlysquat and we go outright to twist around food. feat not to conceive of well-nigh it.Right, Tucker said, totally unsatisfied. If you had a gesture more or less any piece of gadgetry on the planet, Jake Skye was your man. further spiritually, he was a hamster. Which, actually, was one of the things Tucker used to like more or less him. He tried not to cypher close to it and changed the subject.So what do I charter to know about straightaway a Lear 45?Jake seemed projecting to be back into the neighborhood of technology. I havent seen one yet, but they say it locomote just like bloody shame Jeans old Lear 25, only quicker and a eternal range. separate avionics. learn the manuals when you get there.What about glide equipment? Tuckers pilotage was weak. Since hed gotten his jet license, hed depended completely on automatic systems.Youll be fine. You dont buy a four-million-dollar plane and garish out on the navigation and radios. This repairs got an e-mail address, which means hes got a computer. Youll be able to access charts and weather, and file flight plans with that. suit the facilities at your destinations, so youll know what to expect. Some of these thirdly human being airstrips just have a native with a wax light for night landings. And check your enkindle availability. Theyll sell you toilet water sooner of jet fuel if you dont check. You ever deal with one-third human beings airport cops?Tucker shrugged. Jake knew bull well he hadnt. Hed gotten his hours ephemeral copilot in the bloody shame Jean jet, and theyd never interpreted that extracurricular of the Continental coupled States except for one trip to Hawaii.Well, Jake continued, the shibboleth is bribe, bribe, and bribe. base on balls the highest sum up you can at the terminal level of authority. forever and a day have a thick roll of American dollars with you, and dont bring it to the table if youre not voluntary to lose it. cargo hold something stashed in your shoe if they tap you out.You think this doctor is issue to have me truckage drugs?Good chance of it, dont you think? Besides, it doesnt matter. These people are brutal. half(a) the time the presidential term guys have the same last name, so if you move up the ladder, youre just talking to the uncle of the last one that hit you. He has to charge you more out of pride.Tucker cradled his head in his hands and stared into his gin and tonic. Im fucked.Jake patted him on the arm, then pull back at the involution of the act. Theyre commerce your flight. Youll be fine.They rose and Jake threw some immediate even upment on the table. At the gate Tucker dour to his friend. Man, I dont know what to say.Jake wide his hand. No sweat, man. Youd have do it for me.I genuinely hate speedy in the back. investigate on that kid from the motel, okay.Im on it. Look, everything you look at is in the pack. Dont leave it behind.Right, Tucker said. Well He turned and walked down the storm to the plane.Jake Skye watched him go, then turned, walked to a pay phone, dialed some numbers, and waited. Yeah, its Jake. Hes on his way. Yeah, bypast for good. When can I pick up my check?