"Christopher Moore - Coyote Blue" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moore Christopher)

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ADJECTIVE

Whencoyote is used as a modifier, as incoyote ugly (if you wake up in bed with your arm under
the head of someone who iscoyote ugly , and you would gnaw it off rather than wake that person up), it
is pronounced KAI-YO-TEE.



TITLE

The title of this book is pronounced KAI-YO-TEE BLEW. Readers who have a problem with
pronunciation might want to read it silently the first time through. This is doubly important if you are
reading this on an airplane.




Part 1

Epiphany




Chapter 1

Life Will Find You

Santa Barbara, California



While magic powder was sprinkled on the sidewalk outside, Samuel Hunter moved around his
office like a machine, firing out phone calls, checking computer printouts, and barking orders to his
secretary. It was how he began every business day: running in machine mode until he left for his first sales
appointment and put on the right persona for the prospect.

People who knew Sam found him hardworking, intelligent, and even likable, which is exactly
what he wanted them to find. He was confident and successful in business, but he wore his success with a
humility that put people at ease. He was tall, lean, and quick with a smile, and people said he was as
comfortable in a Savile Row suit before a boardroom of businessmen as he was lounging in jeans at
Santa Barbara's wharf, trading stories and lies with the fishermen. In fact, the apparent ease with which
Sam mastered his environment was the single disturbing quality people noticed in him. How was it that a
guy could play so many roles so well, and never seem uncomfortable or out of place? Something was
missing. It wasn't that he was a bad guy, it was just that you could never get close to him, you never got a