ASIN: B00DJE97IK
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 149
Book 12 of Lawrence's youthful adventures, 1973-76. Fleeing Haiti in the nick of time, Lawrence, excited by his mother's fanciful description of the Caribbean seaport Cartagena de Indias, based solely on a Hollywood movie she saw which was filmed there ("Burn!", starring Marlon Brando) recklessly transfers his leather business there, in blissful ignorance of Colombia's reputation for rampant crime. He sets up his workshop in the picturesque old town, on "Rum Shop Street", and enlists a whimsically chivalrous Colombian hippie, Wilson, to help him run it. He is lured under her mosquito net by a sensuous Cartagenera who lives on a salt-water lagoon near the airport but fears she might be hoping to snare him in a net harder to get out of... His shop does well, catering to the American tourist trade, but after only a few months is one night stripped clean by well-informed burglars. The cost ...
