Revelation at Tikal | Literary Adventure Fiction Podcast19 Aug

Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 24: The Detour She Chose

Panama, early 1978. The engine note has changed. Less climb, more cruise, and salt in the air through the vents.

Four of them now instead of five. At a Canal Zone checkpoint the Californians who carried Floey out of Guatemala discover they are couriers rather than custodians, and Carlos, who held the checkpoint money and the say over every road they took while they were in his birth country, learns what the Foundation does with a man once his usefulness ends at a border.

Manuel has a house in the city. Secure, he says. Rest, he says. Then the Board will decide how to present her.

But behind his shoulder there is a strip of grey-green water and a chain of low green islands, and Floey knows something about people who need an audience in order to believe their own story. She hands them her own destination wrapped in their language, and not one of them notices the exchange.

It buys her a boat, two weeks, and chaperones. It does not buy her freedom, and she knows exactly what the collateral is: a monthly deposit that changes banks every time she is moved, and a California lawyer who will file for her children the moment she stands in front of the Board.

The most dangerous thing on the water with her is not Manuel. It is a warm coal Sara placed in her chest weeks ago, and how easy it would be to believe it again. To embrace the thought of the ancient astronauts.

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Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 28: Locks and Leaving

Chapter 28 — "Locks and Leaving" Panama City greets Cutty and Paula with heat, noise, and the last thing they wanted to see in a mirror: the Foundation's battered white van, back in the game and shovi...

16 Sep 24min

Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 27: Parrots, Prophets, and Puerto de Carti

Chapter 27 — "Parrots, Prophets, and Puerto de Cartí" Eight days into a pool-repair layover at La Herradura, waiting on a bank refund that keeps not arriving, Cutty is elbow-deep in a filter trench wh...

9 Sep 24min

Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 26: White Death on Cerro de la Muerte

Costa Rica, 1977. Somewhere ahead of him is a white van with his sister in it, and the only way to close the gap is straight over the roof of Central America. Cutty Braughn takes the Inter-American Hi...

2 Sep 24min

Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 25: Epoxy and Electrocution

Noon sits on his shoulders like a wet saddle. Cutty Braughn has a road map in the clear flap of the tank bag and a different one behind his eyes, and everything on the second one is moving: a white va...

26 Aug 15min

Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 23: A Possible Future

Rene has friends behind every desk in this dusty Nicaraguan town, which turns out to matter more than an American passport when six hundred stolen dollars needs chasing through a rubber-stamp bureaucr...

12 Aug 13min

Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 22: Dancing With Saints, Chased by True Believers

A rustic albergue off a back road in Honduras, a guancasco spilling out of the church square, and for one night the road stops chasing anybody. Cutty Braughn parks the BMW inside the beach bohio like ...

5 Aug 17min

Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 21: Magician at the Border

The road south of San Miguel ends at a wall of sandbags, a platoon of soldiers, and the regime's informers — las orejas, the ears. Two men lie wired at the shoulder. A third is staked to a fence post ...

29 Jul 19min