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The first book of the Clint Faraday series. A collection of shorts that take us from when he first moves to Panamá through several cases where he becomes friends and partners with the Policía Nacionál. Clint is a retired PT from Florida. He finds more work sincw he retires than when it was his profession in the states. He quickly finds he is "soul mates" with the indigebous people in Bocas, the Ngobe. He will spoend the rest of his life in Panamá,...
2) Nightfall
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Clint is having a delicious meal until a family comes to the long table on the deck of the Pirate. A malicious oldman has, apparently, brought his family on a vacation where he constantly belittles them,
He suddenly can't swallow. Clint goes to help.
The old man is murdered that night, Clint is called to aid the police.
Then it gets weird. More murders, horse race fixing, the doctor and lawyer are in Panamá?
Then it really gets weird - to the point...
3) Bottleneck
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Mrs. Bellows from the community center is found dead in a canal. CD investigates and finds there is a kiddie porn ring operating from the mobile home village.
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One of "The Kids" is charged with murder on St. Wartons. CD investigates to find himself in the middle of a very strange intrigue indeed A bunch of international mobsters are going to try to take over South AmericaCritic comment:James Bond, move over I like this one. I really do like the kind of story that goes right to the line, but manages to not QUITE cross it.– JMD *****
5) Pedoverts
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Bottleneck - A woman is murdered. CD investigates to learn there is a ring of kiddie porn operating in the park. CD has to go to Europe in disguise.Death Walks Beside Me - A sad man going into the comarca. Anyone he gets close to is murdered. Why? What does Landrow, a name the medicine woman came up with, have to do with it? What do Vince's childhood friends have to do with it?Dead Drunk - a local man is murdered. The Indios on the island said that...
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Clint and family are enjoying their last two weeks this trip at their place in Quebrada Tula. Basilio, from Cusapín, is visiting. They are sitting on the porch at sunset, which is spectacular. Basilio says there is going to be trouble. It is in the signs. It will involve people on the comarca, but will not be from the comarca.Clint remembers other times when Basilio made predictions based on a special sunset. He figured he could depend on hearing...
10) Golden Coffins
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Billionaires and hoods. Are they really insane enough to think they can use such crude methods to take over the comarca?
11) Rest in Pieces
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An obnoxious tourist in the cantina gets thrown out by Clint. A friend says he was the type whose headstone would read RIP - for rest in pieces. Then he was found dead. Chopped to pieces.
12) Dead Serious
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Clint is visiting friends in Santiago when a man from Brazil says he is going to stand up to the local excuse for a mafia.A local lawyer says, "You can't be serious ""Dead serious," he replies.Then the bodies start showing up. They are the bodies of the man's associates and friends.Is the mafia eliminating problems before they start? Then why not kill Sargento?Clint doesn't think so.
13) Dead Tired
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Clint is talking with a man in the Lemon Grass Restaurante. The man says he doesn't know what's wrong with him, lately. He always seems to be dead tired. The doctors can't find anything wrong and have been prescribing vitamins and mild stimulants. He keeps having wild dreams that leave him exhausted. He's tired, but can't sleep in the daytime.Two days later, he's dead. He died in his sleep – while driving his ATV.
15) A Timely Burial
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Clint gets home to have Judi inform him the a friend's funeral was just announced on TV. That sort of pissed Clint off, that he wasn't told about it when he was talking to the guy ten minutes ago. It leads to a group of corrupt local officials and a n investigation of the man's murder. This was a strange one, even for Clint Faraday!
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Clint is visiting friends in Mali. There is a young woman who has crossed the fence onto the friend's property. Clint asks what she's doing. She says she's gathering flowers for the grave.Ernesto says she had permission. She gathered flowers a lot. They just grew wild there.Then it ended for her when some of her flowers were put on her own grave.
17) Night Shift
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8 shorter mysteries defining Nick, his job, and his personaality, Familiarizes the people he works with.
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Three detectives originally from Florida meet in David, Panamá. Clint Faraday is retired from the US and is living on the Comarca Ngobe Bugle with his wife and son and daughter.CD Grimes is a billionaire private detective from Bonita Springs, Florida. He is with his wife and flew in his own jet to David at the invitation of his nutty musician, botanist, author friend, Dave, who works with Clint Faraday quite often and is also a close friend of the...
19) Shortcuts
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A collection of shorts featuring Clint Faraday, retired PI from Florida who has moved to Panamá. He works with the Policía Nacionál, in many cases. He is learning the differences in the laws and methods, and is gaining a very good reputation. He is starting to learn a bit of pragmatism about life and situations.
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