Hawke

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Who let me steal so many precious hours, and filled the rest giving me hope and inspiration

Acknowledgments

I thank Sandra Blanton; the late Dr. William S. Gray; Tina Fanjul and her father, Gustavo de los Reyes; Benji Griswold; Mario Mendoza; Mary Anne Page; Jim Patterson; Larry Robins; and Robbie Taylor for their generous aid and encouragement during the writing of this book.

Especially, I am grateful to Peter Lampack for being relentless and to Emily Bestler for being Emily Bestler.

Prologue

The boy, barely seven years old, was dreaming what was to be the last completely happy dream of his life.

He was sound asleep in the top bunk of his tiny berth as images of his dog, Scoundrel, bounded across his mind. They had taken a small picnic down to the edge of the sea, just below the big house where his grandfather lived. Scoundrel was plunging again and again into the waves, retrieving the red rubber ball. But now some terrible black storm appeared to be howling in from the sea, and there was a voice calling him to come home quickly.

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