Black Girl, White Girl
Автор:
Patricia Moyes, 218 стр., издатель:
"Henry Holt and Company", ISBN:
0-8050-1148-X
When the little Caribbean island of Tampica was granted its independence, there was general rejoicing among its people. Of course, as everyone knew, there were some rough spots in the island's economy—what Caribbean island didn't have these? But by and large optimism prevailed: the tourist industry was about to take off, with big resort hotels, a new jet airport, and a high-speed inter-island ferry in the works, and surely this would solve Tampica's fiscal worries. But the tourist boom just wasn't big enough to overcome the deficits. So when a new group of politicos came on the scene with promises of economic recovery, the people voted them into power. And shortly afterward, money started flowing into the island; the worst kind of money, drug money. With local officials bribed into complicity, the island became a haven for the traffic in cocaine—"white girl" in the local argot. Emmy and Henry Tibbett knew nothing of this. Their memories of Tampica were of a quiet...
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