A Rotten Stinking Place To Die

Something's hinky on board the Orient Star, and Vannevar "Budiman" Wells can't quite figure out what.

His friend and skipper Alexandra Cooper, a sea-salted Australian who charters the boat for Indian Ocean excursions, is uneasy about her guests. She's asked Budi to come along as the cook and watch her back. He's good at that sort of thing. A bicultural American born in Indonesia, he's been around the tropical garden more than a few times, and through the seamy underbrush of paradise, too, wh...