Chapter Ten:
The Rules of the Game
Bond saw the girl. She was sitting at the baccarat table looking bored and smoking Camel Filters. Her long black hair was pinned in a chignon, exposing the tall swan neck, and her shoulders were bare except for the cotton-thin silver strands of elastic supporting the sheer cocktail dress, which finished
at the knee.
Next to her and in prime position, the shoe buried beneath his huge left hand, was a bulky broad shouldered desperado. The man was probably in his mid-fifties. His skin was deeply tanned, from birth and then from constant exposure to the sun. His facial expressions switched from almost callous
delight to anger. There seemed to be no benign median. He laughed with big expressive gulps. He scowled when something displeased him. A fat Havana cigar was occasionally raised to his mouth. He bit on it, sucked in the smoky tang and would watch as the tip glowed red, matching his one good eye. The black patch clung to his left eye, but the right was alert and cunning, constantly on the move, looking for danger, for threats, for salvation. Above the strong jaw and the Roman nose was a receding domed pate, the stubble, showing black in some places but age and the sun had turned it predominantly grey. His face was lined with the weathered cracks of life. While his facial appearance may have been like that of a bandit, his external elegance was not in doubt. He was dressed immaculately in a tailored tuxedo which seemed to bulge with muscle. There was one item of jewelry, a signet ring, a circle of gold with an inverted triangle inscribed in ebony, the pagan symbol for the earth.
Marcelo Sabatini was in complete control of the table. He had just scored another coup and was puffing on the cigar, a flat grin sitting behind the wall of smoke.
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Luca Zingaretti, in part, my inspiration for Sabatini.
The Water Club Hotel, Isla Verde, San Juan
By day ...
By night ...
A lovely boutique hotel with beautiful views over the bay, very good for cocktails...
Chapter Ten
Coming very soon ....
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