7. Arnotine Ferucand is...
Ryu was shocked when the fat woman spoke to him in Japanese. She was a very unpleasant creature. It was not that she was large. In fact, he noted with some pleasure, that this woman would have made quite a sumo wrestler. She was gargantuan, the dark flesh pleating so thickly around her...
6. Hide and Seek (6)
“Come in,” she responded gaily to Ryu’s knock on the frame of the rag-draped lintel. “So, you have found me, Ryu,” she guffawed when the yakuza stepped gingerly inside, careful not to let his clothes brush up against the filth in the kitchen. It stank. It smelled like death. Ryu sniffed...
6. Hide and Seek (5)
She was quick, and the element of surprise was in her favor. She grabbed the knife, waved it aloft and squealed. The sharp blade glinted magically in the rheumy quarter-light. White teeth flashed in all the dark faces. Screams broke out. Brandishing the knife the woman charged at Ryu and...
6. Hide and Seek (4)
Old Ronan escorted Ryu into the candlelit den where a gargantuan woman lay on a table in the center of a swaying and shuffling crowd. “She is sick,” whispered Ronan, his voice thin and dry. “I will heal her.” Drumbeats and low chanting, almost a crooning, rocked the room. Then a woman in...
6. Hide and Seek (3)
Whatever his real identity, his name loosened tongues. “What do you know of Arnotine Ferucand?” sneered a tall young man on the second day of their investigation in the vicinity of Jacmel. He regarded Ryu with suspicion. Then he looked at the photo of Miura and chuckled. “Oh, yes this...