Misfit, missionary, mercenary? • Gordon Peake

Misfit, missionary, mercenary? • Gordon Peake

“First thing to learn about the islands is not to ask a man his last name. Second is not to ask where he is from and the third why he is here in the first place.” It was a boozy seaplane pilot who introduced me to the idea that the islands of the Pacific are places of escape. His name was Jake Cutter, and he was the lead character in Tales of the Gold Monkey, a television show I adored as a child. Set somewhere in the Pacific Islands before the …