Mr. Clarinet
Nick Stone
And in loving memory of Philomčne Paul (Fofo), Ben Cawdry, Adrian "Skip" Skipsey, and my grandmother
Mary Stone
Contents
Epigraph
PROLOGUE
TEN MILLION DOLLARS if he performed a miracle and brought…
Part 1
Chapter 1
HONESTY AND STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS weren't always the best options, but Max…
Chapter 2
BACK IN MIAMI, Max took a cab from the airport…
Chapter 3
MAX HAD KNOWN Joe for twenty-five years. They'd started out…
Chapter 4
AT THE HOTEL, Max took a shower and tried to…
Chapter 5
CLYDE BEESON HAD fallen far. Life hadn't just kicked him…
Chapter 6
MAX DROVE BACK to Miami and headed for Little Haiti.
Part 2
Chapter 7
THE FLIGHT OUT to Haiti was held up for an…
Chapter 8
THE ROAD AWAY from the airport was long, dusty, and…
Chapter 9
NIGHT FELL QUICKLY in Haiti. One minute it was late…
Chapter 10
THE MEN FROM the airport picked Max up for dinner.…
Chapter 11
DINNER WAS SERVED by two maids in black uniforms with…
Chapter 12
BACK IN THE car, heading down the mountain to Pétionville,…
Chapter 13
MAX LEFT LA COUPOLE at around two a.m. The Barbancourt…
Chapter 14
WHEN THEY WERE gone, he stumbled around the now-empty streets,…
Chapter 15
MAX WASHED HIS face and shaved and made more coffee.
Part 3
Chapter 16
"MAX, YOU STINK," Chantale told him and laughed her dirty…
Chapter 17
THEY DROVE DOWN Boulevard Harry Truman, a wide, palm tree–lined,…
Chapter 18
THEY DROVE TO the Boulevard des Veuves, where Charlie had…
Chapter 19
THE OLD WOMAN was as Francesca had described her, wearing…
Chapter 20
"SO WHAT DO you think? Did Vincent Paul kidnap Charlie?"
Chapter 21
THE RUE BOYER had once been a gated community of…
Chapter 22
A TEENAGE GIRL with a warm smile and braces on…
Chapter 23
MAX OPENED HIS notebook and pressed RECORD.
Chapter 24
THEY HEADED BACK to the bank, Max at the wheel…
Chapter 25
HE CALLED ALLAIN Carver from the house and gave him…
Chapter 26
NO MATTER WHAT Huxley and Chantale had told him about…
Chapter 27
HE FOLLOWED THE convoy to a clearing near the sea,…
Chapter 28
IN THE LATE afternoon, Vincent Paul got into a jeep…
Chapter 29
WHAT PASSED FOR nightlife in Pétionville was in full swing…
Chapter 30
MAX CALLED ALLAIN Carver the next morning and told him…
Chapter 31
NWOI ET ROUGE was named after the colors of the…
Chapter 32
CHANTALE DROVE MAX to a café where she ordered a…
Chapter 33
"IT'S NOT THAT we don't care. We do—only we…
Chapter 34
THEY LEFT FOR Saut d'Eau at four a.m. the following…
Chapter 35
TO MOST HAITIANS, Saut d'Eau is a place where the…
Chapter 36
