Chapter One   Lou Starr was in bed reading, covered to the waist by a sheet. He''d set the air at sixty-eight and heard the compressor kick on outside. He pushed up the glasses that were falling off the end of his nose and stared at the signature hole of a new Robert Trent Jones PGA golf course called Whispering Palms.   He fondled the medallion that was hanging from a gold chain around his neck, resting on a sweater of chest hair. Lou said, "Want to see the best-looking new hole in golf?" He tilted the magazine toward Karen on the other side of the king-size bed, two feet of mattress between them.   Karen didn''t say anything. She was propped up on pillows, the bedsheet angling across her chest revealing the pale white skin of her shoulder and the round curve of a breast. She was watching a sitcom on a Sony .at screen that hung on the wall a few feet away.   "It''s a six-hundred-yard par five," Lou said. "Longest one in golf." He grinned now, imagining himself on the tee looking down the fairway. He took a couple practice swings with his Fusion FT-3 driver and blasted the ball three hundred and twenty-five yards straight down the pike. Hey, Tiger, beat that.   Lou hit his second shot over a bunker and a water hazard—on in two. He lined up the putt and sent the ball forty feet over a swale—left to right—for an eagle. He grinned big and closed the magazine and placed it on the table next to the bed. He took off his reading glasses, pu

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