What is "zavala"

Usage examples of "zavala".

Sitting at the metal table that occupied center place were Captain Atwood, Ensign Kreisman and Joe Zavala.

San Antonio, Texas 29 WHILE AUSTIN ENJOYED HIS EXPENSIVE gourmet lunch, Joe Zavala was sixteen hundred miles away munching a honey-glazed doughnut at a coffee shop on the Paseo del Rio, or Riverwalk, the picturesque tourist district on the banks of the San Antonio River.

Zavala had hoped to excavate a few nuggets and hadn't expected Dodson to offer him the whole gold mine.

Zavala looked up and saw Dodson standing there, a bemused smile on his face.

Zavala filled him in on his interview with Lord Dodson, and Austin gave a summary of Jenkins's visit to NUMA and the successful mission to the Ataman ship.

Zavala was already in his black-hooded Viking Pro military dry suit, and Trout was going over a checklist.

The battery-driven motors whined as Zavala goosed the throttle and pointed the submersible toward shore.

Zavala reached for a halogen lamp which had fallen within arm's reach.

Barker's men had taken no chances after Bens last visit, and there were no keys left in the igni tion, but Zavala could take a marine engine apart in his sleep.

A graduate in marine engineering from the New York Maritime College, Zavala possessed a brilliant mechanical mind.

Zavala got off a single shot before the white-haired man swept the garage with his eyes as if he had heard the quiet whirr of the motor drive.

As Austin and Zavala descended the ladder, the Russian opened the case and removed a paper-wrapped object cushioned in protec- tive plastic foam, then he unwrapped the paper to reveal a heavy square bottle.

Lathrop, Zavala towed Moore's flagship, Austin, and the armed sloop San Bernard ninety miles up the San Juan Bautista River to the provincial capital of Tabasco, currently under the control of the Mexican government.

When he was sure Zavala was in the clear he squeezed the trigger mechanism and felt the crossbow kick slightly as it loosed the bolt.