CHAPTER 2IN OCTOBER Ramsey and Pete Davos quit their jobs in a Pennsylvania coal mine and drifted west to the oil fields of the Texas gulf coast. Ramsey went to work as a rigger and Pete landed a job as a driller’s helper. They took a room at the Gulf Hotel, a small clean establishment close to the waterfront, and started work on a Monday morning. Monday evening they were drinking beer in a small night club not far from the hotel. It was called the Jungle Tavern. The decorations consisted of fake palm trees, bamboo furniture and south sea murals. The waiters wore white mess jackets and the cigarette girls swished about in brief grass skirts and little else.
It was in the Jungle Tavern that Ramsey met Sara Colvin.
She glided out onto the floor under a blue spotlight and began to sway to t
