The British Colonial Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas

     The Nassau, Bahama’s historic hotel on Bay Street, the British Colonial, is featured in the PENUMBRA DATABASE spy thriller. View the video (below). I enjoy the British Colonial Hotel so much! It is the only beachfront hotel in Nassau and nearby are duty-free shops galore. It’s best-kept secret is 8-acre, private, lush garden behind it, with a neat pool bar and talcum-powdered beach. The James Bond spy movie “Never Say Never Again”, starring Sean Connery was shot there.

     There are amazing views of the cruise ship harbor, and it’s pet friendly as well. In my PENUMBRA DATABASE spy thriller, the hotel’s plush Bullion Bar is used as a contact between CIA operatives and the spies they recruit. The video below tells all about spy craft used at the hotel!

     A 10-minute walk away is Junkanoo Beach with the Tiki Hut Bikini Beach bar. If you’re in Nassau on a cruise ship, definitely hit this beach bar; it’s a short walk from the cruise ship pier.

     Here is a snippet from the PENUMBRA DATABASE spy thriller:

Milo Symonette wiped off the mahogany bar top at the British Colonial Hotel’s plush Bullion Bar. He gazed out the picture windows past the ush tropical gardens, watching Darnell Ferguson proceed down the walkway and sit at the Patio Grill & Pool Bar. Ferguson alerted him that he missed a meeting with his old friend Corey Pearson at the Poop Deck and that Corey should be along shortly 

Milo “The Messenger” knew exactly what to do and placed a large vase with ornamental reeds at the end of the bar so it would be easily visible from the hotel lobby. It was a signal to Corey that the coast was clear, and his missed contact is present. He surmised there was a connection between their canceled clandestine meeting at the Poop Deck, the police cars with sirens blaring that sped past the old “BC” toward Parliament Square minutes ago, and the backup rendezvous meeting about to take place.

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Corey walked out of the Bullion Bar into the “BC’s” tropical gardens after Milo proudly told him that both his sons were promoted to detective rank in the RBPF. He didn’t tell Milo that they unknowingly work for CBIF. Deputy Commander Ellison Rolle of the RBPF was one of Corey’s paid informants and received a hefty stipend for elevating both boys to be detectives. The Deputy Commander sends them out, on occasion, to stakeout individuals of interest to CBIF.

     He found Darnell Ferguson perched on a barstool, savoring a Yellow Bird in the shade of the Patio Grill & Pool Bar. The steady but gentle breeze from Nassau Harbor and Paradise Island felt good.

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Here’s a neat video of the British Colonial Hotel and the beautiful grounds behind it, right out of the PENUMBRA DATABASE spy novel scene described above. Enjoy!

Robert Morton is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers and enjoys writing about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).