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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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  80. Praise for Blood in the Water
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“… He’s moved his base to somewhere else,” Steele finished the sentence. “You just need to know where. But how?”

“There was one other thing that he wanted,” Cormack said.

“What was it?”

“He wants Suarez back.”

“So?”

“Suarez is a strategist—his right hand,” Cormack said. “That’s what those files you gave me said. That’s why he wants him back. He wants Suarez’s help in figuring out how to take me out. That means that he’s going to bring Suarez to his new base once he gets him back. I can’t get any of my people close to his warehouse; they’d be spotted. But if your people are watching his place, and they let you know if and when they put Suarez on a boat, he can be tracked back to wherever Soh is now.”

Steele looked skeptical. “I can’t get the resources to follow them over the water without disclosing a lot more about what’s going on between me and you,” she said. “Obviously, I can’t do that.”

“That’s all right,” Cormack said. “Your people would probably be spotted on the water anyway. I have ways of tracking them as long as I know that we’ve got the right boat.”

“Are you sure Diamond is with Soh?”

Cormack shrugged. “She’s too valuable to him to let her out of his sight. I can’t imagine he’d entrust her to anyone else.” He looked out at the water and thought again about all the things that he had done that had brought him to this moment. He thought about the way he had put his daughter and his grandchild at risk. It made him want to throw himself into the harbor—just keep swimming out into the icy water, and let the sea take him this time. But he couldn’t do that now, he knew. Now he was her only chance to live. And he could only save her with Kit Steele’s help. He looked at her. “Will you help me?” he asked.

She thought about it, but only for a moment. “If I do it, that means I’m in, all the way. I need to know everything that’s happening.”

“You sure?” he asked. “You won’t have any plausible deniability if this goes sideways.”

She gave a bitter laugh. “I lost plausible deniability a long time ago,” she said. “All I want now is to stop these people from doing whatever it is they’re planning. If I can do that, I’ll happily go to jail.”

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