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Contents (41)
  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter 1
  3. Chapter 2
  4. Chapter 3
  5. Chapter 4
  6. Chapter 5
  7. Chapter 6
  8. Chapter 7
  9. Chapter 8
  10. Chapter 9
  11. Chapter 10
  12. Chapter 11
  13. Chapter 12
  14. Chapter 13
  15. Chapter 14
  16. Chapter 15
  17. Chapter 16
  18. Chapter 17
  19. Chapter 18
  20. Chapter 19
  21. Chapter 20
  22. Chapter 21
  23. Chapter 22
  24. Chapter 23
  25. Chapter 24
  26. Chapter 25
  27. Chapter 26
  28. Chapter 27
  29. Chapter 28
  30. Chapter 29
  31. Chapter 30
  32. Chapter 31
  33. Chapter 32
  34. Chapter 33
  35. Chapter 34
  36. Chapter 35
  37. Chapter 36
  38. Chapter 37
  39. Author's Note:
  40. Wisdom Spring by Andrew Cunningham
  41. About the Author

After Tony killed Vlad, all hell broke loose and we knew it was time to go. Three of the Fordlandia guys had Tony cornered, and Bruce—who didn't even like Tony—shot one of them. I don't think he meant to, but Bruce wasn't so great with guns and I think it went off accidently. I figured that because Bruce dropped the gun and ran into the woods. He spent half the trip home crying like a baby about how he had killed a guy.

"Definitely a Honeycutt," I said.

Well, we hightailed it to the boat—the same boat we had hired to get there. They hung around because Tony had promised them a big payoff if they'd wait. In the end, he stiffed them, but that was Tony.

We made it back to New York a few weeks later, broke and tired. I thought Flanagan was going to kill us all, and he almost did, but somehow Tony talked him out of it. But we were done with Flanagan and he was done with us. We all got legit jobs, but with the knowledge that as soon as we got the word from Tony, we'd be involved in the biggest score anyone had ever seen.

Which brings me back to John. Tony put John in charge of hiding the treasure. We had to get out of there so fast, Tony didn't have time to do it. The plan was, when things quieted down, John was going to send Tony word of where it was hidden. And that's just what he did. A few months later Tony called us together with a plan. We had to rob a piece of art from the Brooklyn Museum. Tony and I did the heist, while Bruce acted as lookout. We were supposed to get one specific painting, but I said, "What the hell?" and took a whole pile of them.

John sent us instructions to where the treasure was hidden. Did he send us a letter with clear directions? No. Instead, he sent us a clue. A painting. The painting we were after in the museum. It was a clue, but really it was a "fuck you" message to Tony. Turns out John hated Tony (big surprise, everyone hated him). I saw the painting. There was nothing in it Tony didn't already know. Fordlandia, a rubber tree, a house that looked like all the others, and a headstone.

Anyway, things were hot for a while after the heist, so Tony gave the painting to Bruce and told him to hide it. Right after that, Bruce left town for a while; I think he found a good hiding place. As for me, I skipped town. I heard later that everyone assumed I was dead.

As for the others, Tony was killed a short time later. Bruce lasted a little while longer, but was killed in an accident. Last I heard about John, he left Fordlandia when Ford abandoned it. He developed some sort of fever and died before he could even leave Brazil.