Four days later Norma was strolling with Stanley along the Marina in Biscayne Bay. Her plan was to have Stanley, under the guise of looking for a boat to buy and moor in the marina, sketch the layout of the slips and the boats tied up in them. Norma was confident with her counterfeit media credentials she could find out about the secretary’s planned deep sea fishing excursion. Once she knew the name of the boat and its mooring, slipping a little four-ounce package of semtex aboard would be all she needed for mission accomplished.

That night in scanning all the local papers and with the local TV station on constantly, she learned the Secretary of Commerce was ending his official talks with Florida and Central American business people on Friday and was going to indulge in his hobby of salt water fishing. She had one more day to put her little package in the right place. The next morning she dragged Stanley out of their hotel room for breakfast in a place overlooking the marina. After breakfast she told Stanley to wait for her on the terrace. Norma dressed in her official business suit with a red wig and glasses, walked to the marina and went in to find the manager. A young girl in cutoffs and a tee pointed to a man out on the dock watching boat traffic.

Norma approached him, gave him her media card and said she was assigned to cover the secretary’s fishing trip and could he help her. She understood the secretary’s staff assistant had made the arrangements for a two-day trip departing here early tomorrow morning. The manager, looking like he had a hangover, said he was busy but she could come back tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. and watch the departure. Norma, who could pass for someone fifteen years younger, said she was a print reporter and not a video jockey. She needed some background and was willing to pay for some help and, with that, passed the man she now knew as Joe another business card with a fifty dollar bill.

Joe took the money and said, “There’s not much to say. The VIP guy is going out on Miss Money in slip 32. Captain Billy will find ’em some good fishing holes in the Gulf Stream ’bout 10 miles out. There’s some good marlin fishing and maybe grouper out there. They’ve ordered lunch for five.”

Norma thanked him and asked if she could go on board the Miss Money. Joe told her to go ahead, just take her heels off before going on board. He didn’t think anyone was on board yet. Norma found slip 32 without any trouble. She slipped off her heels and quietly went on board the 40-foot cabin cruiser, featuring two game fishing chairs on the aft deck. She called quietly to see if anyone was on board. After listening for several seconds, she went below deck and made her way forward to a position under the anchored fishing chairs. There Norma concealed her semtex package behind the overhead ventilator vent. After double checking everything, she set the timing device for twenty-four hours, giving the fishing boat time to get at least a few miles offshore.

Twenty minutes later she joined Stanley on the veranda and told him what she had done. Stanley was astounded that placing the bomb had been so easy. He was planning a late night journey out to the fishing boat, if Norma had been able to identify the boat and slip. This was so easy they should go celebrate, even if it was only 10:30 a.m. Norma told him first they had to change hotels away from Biscayne Bay. There was no way Joe, the marina manager, would be able to give the police a description of her, but it was just safer to move out of the immediate area. They would hang around until some news program told them about the death of the Secretary of Commerce in a boating accident.

The next day just before noon the local TV station broadcast a breaking news event that Secretary Waterford was missing after a boating accident ten miles offshore. An explosion aboard the boat, Miss Money, was seen by two other fishing boats. Witnesses reported the boat sank quickly and no survivors were found. Two as yet unidentified bodies were recovered. The Coast Guard was investigating the accident. Norma decided they should stay a few more days before heading back to Yulee in northern Florida. She hoped her Russian controller would be happy and would pass on a bonus. He was really very generous with his payments for jobs well done.