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Thursday's Orchid by Robert Mitchell, some kind of marijuana-smuggling disaster thriller, originally out from Queensland-based small publisher Boolarong Press in 1994.
“Marijuana!” he burst out as soon as the others had moved away. “We move fifty tonnes of marijuana out of Australia!”
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He leaned back into the armchair, smiling like the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.
It was weeks later that I was to question that grin, but not until after the killing had started, not until the waves had begun crashing into the stern of the ship, the salt spray covering the decks, the hull grinding, tearing itself upon the coral.
Not until terror had taken hold!