Books Excerpt from Chapter 1 (Day 36 to the USA Launch)
June 7th, 2008
Unscrupulous landlords rented the rooms by the hour, and
some enterprising sailors sublet their bed when they were at sea,
collecting precious whisky and cigarettes as rent. Every day they
survived on a single portion of rice cooked as congee, a tasteless
porridge that served as breakfast, lunch and dinner – a neverending
starchy monotony.
