New Novel Progress: A beer with two schemers.

Rolling on things in Chapter 8 of the new novel, but wanted to keep progress reports coming.

Here's a bit from Chapter 5 that I think you'll find engaging. In Guinea-Bissau, a scene that introduces a discussion of some things that will be "complications" to the operation that our Main Character and his team will be taking on.

There wasn’t too much dust blowing around as the two of them sat at an outside table of the restaurant at the edge of the port district of Bissau City. The roads around there were all paved. Having to drink beer was bad enough, having it seasoned with Terra Cotta in powdered form would have been intolerable. That was only a passing thought for Alphonse Balzac, the French North African that had been identified by the Agency Dude Fuller as a noteworthy foreigner here. Balzac had come to this restaurant with the tables that were too low to be comfortable, for a casual meeting with someone to do business. Drinking beer was almost required when having such a discussion with a staff major of the Cuban presence.

At least Major Jorge Morales was talkative today. Some days, he was too wrapped up in his unhappiness about being in Bissau to do more than grunt, drink and wipe his mustache. He leaned on the table as he spoke, for he, like it, was of average size. Today, with the simple prompting of a topic, he was full of revolutionary vigor and a willingness to claim that that was more important than discussing getting rich on the side.

Enjoy!