CLARINETTE WAS A village on its way to becoming a…
Chapter 37
THE LEBALLECS LIVED half an hour away from the cemetery,…
Chapter 38
WHEN THEY RETURNED to Clarinette, they asked anyone who looked…
Chapter 39
IT WAS STILL dark when he got back, but the…
Chapter 40
BEFORE SHE'D DISAPPEARED in November 1994, Claudette Thodore had lived…
Chapter 41
"DO YOU STILL think Vincent Paul took Charlie?" Chantale asked…
Chapter 42
MAX WAITED UNTIL nightfall; then he went around to the…
Chapter 43
MAX CONSIDERED TELLING Allain about the tape, but he held…
Part 4
Chapter 44
"HOW ARE YOU feeling?" Vincent Paul asked Max, after he'd…
Chapter 45
"THE WOMAN YOU know as Francesca Carver was once called…
Chapter 46
MAX WAS BLINDFOLDED and put in the back of an…
Chapter 47
THERE WERE FIVE telephone messages waiting for him—Joe, Allain,…
Chapter 48
THE FOLLOWING EVENING Max watched Eloise being picked up outside…
Chapter 49
MAX WAS COLLECTED by Paul's men shortly after three a.m.…
Chapter 50
"CAN WE GET you anything Mister Co-da-da? Water? Coffee? Something…
Chapter 51
ELOISE SHOT MAX a furtive look when he walked into…
Chapter 52
"MAURICE FIRST MET Monsieur Carver—Gustav—in the 1940s. He…
Chapter 53
MAX PACED AROUND in the street outside the house, his…
Chapter 54
THE NEXT MORNING Max woke up with the phone ringing…
Chapter 55
GUSTAV CARVER SMILED warmly when he saw Max walk into…
Chapter 56
ON HIS WAY back, Max stopped off at La Coupole,…
Chapter 57
THE NEXT DAY he got a call from Allain, who…
Chapter 58
"I'M SORRY ABOUT your mother, Chantale," Max said as they…
Part 5
Chapter 59
BACK IN MIAMI, back at the Kendall Radisson Hotel. They…
Chapter 60
DECEMBER 21: JOE called him just after eight a.m., to…
Chapter 61
"VINCENT? IT'S MAX Mingus." The line wasn't good, a lot…
Part 6
Chapter 62
CHANTALE HAD JUST finished loading two cases into the back…
Chapter 63
CARVER'S BEACH HOUSE overlooked a tiny scrap of paradise—a…
Chapter 64
THE GIRLS CAME in first. Kreyol, laughter.
Chapter 65
HUXLEY DROVE. MAX sat next to him with the gun…
Chapter 66
"MY SISTER PATRICE—I used to call her 'Treese.' She…
Chapter 67
CARL AND ERTHA were waiting for them by the door.…
Chapter 68
EARLY THE NEXT morning, Vincent Paul, Francesca, and Charlie came…
EPILOGUE
TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS in $100 bills.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CREDITS
COVER
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
PROLOGUE
TEN MILLION DOLLARS if he performed a miracle and brought the boy back alive, five million dollars if he came back with just the body and another five million if he dragged the killers in with it—their dead-or-alive status was immaterial, as long as they had the kid's blood on their hands.
