By Vivienne Stanton

(Published in National Geographic Traveler, December 2008)

The bar was small and empty, the beer cool and delicious, the night air sweet and sticky with the scent of the tropics, and the Caribbean. The thief’s weapon was modern—not a knife, but a mobile phone. As he entered the bar, he pretended to drop it near our table. I bent to pick it up. He whisked the… Read more