The Black Pearl

Nineteen thirty-nine Hawaii: two Hollywood actresses, the artillery brigade's handsomest officer and finest polo player, the polo player's beautiful wife, a Japanese carrier pilot who is sketching the aerial approach to Pearl Harbor, and the captain of the sketcher's sampan unite in a mlange of passionate encounters that find coherence in the symbology of a Tahitian black pearl. Sidelights are the gold mesh necklace concealed in the God Kane's chest and the emerald cut diamond lost in the sand of the officer's beach at Waialua.