The Lagoon of Desire

Excerpt from The Lagoon of Desire

Across the tennis greens beyond the sea wall, the roadstead of Singapore with the blinking ship's lights of a dozen nations. There was no moon. In the murk of the distance, the waters of the harbor were as placid as a nun's face.

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