The
vast majority of these cases are based on true events… The short story ‘Night Fishing’ was first
published in magazine format in 2006: here is a very brief excerpt:
Night Fishing
“…hold back the
encroaching night of unreason.”
Dusk fled
quickly, as it does out here in the south of Spain. The warm night air was
humid and still. The full moon’s reflection glinted from the calm
Mediterranean. Behind me, crickets chirruped but I barely heard them as I was
concentrating on the little fishing boat out at sea, with its nightlight
casting a circle of white around the stern. From the cliff top, I watched the
three of them through 10x50 binoculars, and my fears were confirmed. Old
Salvador Molina needed his strong sons to haul the net in because it seemed to
contain a heavy object. My heart sank.
Sometimes, the
night of unreason lurks in dark recesses, waiting to cloak the good earth, and
it would seem that even this honest fisherman was not immune to the importuning
of this evil night.
Well, I said it was brief…
From
time to time police reports echo the Cazador tales, and this is but one of them,
from the Costa Blanca News of August
23, 2013:
Often, crime syndicates don’t float items but
submerge them, and they’re then marked with an unobtrusive buoy. Of course this
smuggling technique is used worldwide and isn’t specific to the coast of Spain.
To learn how this pertains to Salvador Molina, you’ll have to read the book…
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