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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
  82. Newsletter Sign-up

Buddy gripped the gun in his pocket as his head cleared and he tried to focus on what all this could mean. Cormack had said that Soh and his men were planning to break Vincente Carpio out of custody. It appeared that his information was accurate, and the attack was now under way. That meant that Soh might very well appear at any second. Buddy decided to keep his attention trained on the vans. They would be the focus of any further attack, he reasoned, and if he could take out Soh and a few of his men, that might end the war with MS-13 for control of the harbor. He thought about Soh kidnapping Diamond—taking her when she was carrying his child—and the rage grew in him. For him, this wasn’t about business anymore. It wasn’t about control over the harbor or the power dynamics in the Boston underworld; it was personal. If there was any way he could take Soh out, he was determined to do it.

Diamond was almost at the courthouse when the explosions rocked the Seaport District. She needed to find Buddy. She didn’t know where else to go. Given all that was happening, calling the police didn’t seem an option, and she had no idea where Cormack was, but she knew that Buddy was somewhere around the courthouse. He was the only one she felt she could trust at this point. As she drove, she looked down at the blood on her hand. She couldn’t think clearly, but she forced herself to take a deep breath to try to compose herself.

The crowds were so heavy along Northern Avenue that she’d detoured a block before and headed down Fan Pier Boulevard so that she could come up Bond Drive, where the crowds were much thinner. She pulled her car to the side of the street when it was clear that she couldn’t get any closer to the building. She was still a block or so away, and she got out and started running. She didn’t even know why—she didn’t know exactly where Buddy was.

The explosions made her stumble, and all of a sudden everyone in the crowd was rushing toward her, headed away from the courthouse and the explosions.

“Oh God, Buddy!” she said under her breath. She knew that he was there—sent to take out Soh if he and his men showed up to free Vincente Carpio. She instantly feared that he was dead, and the thought deepened her disorientation.

The crowd streamed past her, screaming in terror. Diamond saw a young woman carrying a small child. They were both bleeding, and Diamond wondered what could have possessed the young woman to bring a child to this kind of a scene. Then again, she realized, she was pregnant and yet was there herself. But she was there because there was no other place she could think to go.