The opening paragraph:
For the past five weeks Harry Foster
had been living in an efficiency apartment in the Sea Drift Motel.
A Bad Day in the Bahamas, by Alan Cullimore, was published as a paperback
original by Tor in 1989, which is the very edition that caught my eye. The
cover, while not nearly as good as that adorning A Good Place to Hide, is vivid in that 1980’s manner with flashing blues,
greens and oranges. The artist: Unknown (to me at least).
The opening paragraph:
Harry Foster sat on the most deserted
beach, idly pitching pebbles into the clear, calm waters.
As far as I can tell, Alan
Cullimore’s oevre is represented by the two novels above. Both were published
within a four month period: September 1988 to January 1989. I read the second, A Bad Day in the Bahamas as a teenager
and have fond memories reading it across a few summer afternoons.
