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Chapters (82)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. ONE
  5. TWO
  6. THREE
  7. FOUR
  8. FIVE
  9. SIX
  10. SEVEN
  11. EIGHT
  12. NINE
  13. TEN
  14. ELEVEN
  15. TWELVE
  16. THIRTEEN
  17. FOURTEEN
  18. FIFTEEN
  19. SIXTEEN
  20. SEVENTEEN
  21. EIGHTEEN
  22. NINETEEN
  23. TWENTY
  24. TWENTY-ONE
  25. TWENTY-TWO
  26. TWENTY-THREE
  27. TWENTY-FOUR
  28. TWENTY-FIVE
  29. TWENTY-SIX
  30. TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. TWENTY-NINE
  33. THIRTY
  34. THIRTY-ONE
  35. THIRTY-TWO
  36. THIRTY-THREE
  37. THIRTY-FOUR
  38. THIRTY-FIVE
  39. THIRTY-SIX
  40. THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. THIRTY-NINE
  43. FORTY
  44. FORTY-ONE
  45. FORTY-TWO
  46. FORTY-THREE
  47. FORTY-FOUR
  48. FORTY-FIVE
  49. FORTY-SIX
  50. FORTY-SEVEN
  51. FORTY-EIGHT
  52. FORTY-NINE
  53. FIFTY
  54. FIFTY-ONE
  55. FIFTY-TWO
  56. FIFTY-THREE
  57. FIFTY-FOUR
  58. FIFTY-FIVE
  59. FIFTY-SIX
  60. FIFTY-SEVEN
  61. FIFTY-EIGHT
  62. FIFTY-NINE
  63. SIXTY
  64. SIXTY-ONE
  65. SIXTY-TWO
  66. SIXTY-THREE
  67. SIXTY-FOUR
  68. SIXTY-FIVE
  69. SIXTY-SIX
  70. SIXTY-SEVEN
  71. SIXTY-EIGHT
  72. SIXTY-NINE
  73. SEVENTY
  74. SEVENTY-ONE
  75. SEVENTY-TWO
  76. SEVENTY-THREE
  77. SEVENTY-FOUR
  78. SEVENTY-FIVE
  79. SEVENTY-SIX
  80. Praise for Blood in the Water
  81. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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“The only chance you have to do that is to take him out. Even then…” Cicero’s words trailed off as Cormack’s eyes hardened.

“She stays alive,” he said. “No matter what else happens. Did we get any information out of Suarez?”

“He’s a hard man to break,” Cicero said. “He’s held out so far. You want me to speed the process up, increase the pressure? It’s a little dangerous. We’ve been very persuasive already. Any more and he may not live through it.”

“No. If he dies, Diamond dies. We need to make sure he’s alive, at least until we get her back.”

Cormack’s phone rang. He looked at Cicero, and he could tell they were both wondering whether Soh was calling. Cormack looked at the caller ID and shook his head. “It’s the office,” he said. He held the phone up to his ear. “Yeah,” he said. “When?” He could feel his jaw tighten as he heard the news. “OK, keep him there. He’s mine, you understand?” He hung up and nodded to Cicero.

“We’ve got work to do,” he said.

“What kind of work?” Cicero asked.

“They got Buddy Cavanaugh. He just showed up at the union office.” Cormack stood up and headed out to the car.

“My favorite kind of work,” Cicero said, following him out.

FORTY-THREE

Kit was back at her office. The war between Cormack and T’phong Soh was heating up, and there was no question where her loyalties lay. That fact alone, she knew, meant that her principles had been compromised. As a law enforcement officer, it wasn’t her job to choose sides in a battle like this; it was her job to stop it, and to bring both sides to justice. But the danger posed by Soh and the Carpios was too great to ignore. She knew that Cormack had to prevail.

In order to prevail, though, he had to know where Soh was. Without knowing that, there was little that Cormack could do to bring the fight to his enemy. She was doing anything she could to get that information.

Her phone rang, and she picked up the call. “Steele here,” she said.

“It’s Damon.” She recognized the voice of one of the agents on the task force. Kit knew that Soh was no longer using his warehouse in East Boston, but it was the only place she knew to start, so she had posted agents there to watch the place. So far, other than some traffic from low-level MS-13 soldiers, nothing had come of the surveillance.

“You got something?”

“Maybe,” he said. “A van pulled up earlier. Three of Soh’s men got out and headed right to a boat on the pier and out into the harbor. They were heavily armed.”

“So?”

“So, they had someone with them.”

“Who was it?”