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  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
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  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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“It occurred to me,” Kit said. “Why else would Javier come all this way from El Salvador?” She shook his head. “I think he’s using Soh and his men to try to break Vincente out of prison.” Her expression hardened. “I am not going to let that happen. I don’t care what I have to do to make sure it doesn’t.”

“Is there anything in the file that will help me?”

She nodded. “You won’t get to him right now, he’s got too many people around him. But there’s another you may be able to get to. Juan Suarez. He’s Soh’s right hand. All the information is in here. You get to him, and you’ll find out what Soh is planning.”

“So you’ll turn a blind eye on my war against Soh as long as it means he can’t help break Carpio out,” Cormack said. “Federal agents have gone to jail for less.”

Her gaze remained hard. “I’m not turning a blind eye toward anything. Both of my eyes are wide open and seeing fine. If I go to jail, then I go to jail, but I will not let Vincente Carpio loose on the American public again. I’d rather sit in a cell with a clean conscience than walk the streets with the knowledge that there was something I could have done and I didn’t do it.”

He held her stare for a long moment before he spoke again. “Keeping him in prison means that much to you?”

She dropped her eyes to the floor. “When my son and my husband…” she began, but her voice caught in her throat. “I promised that I would do anything I could to prevent anyone from ever going through what I went through. It’s what I’ve dedicated my life to. And I’ve failed. I caught him once, and he escaped and eight more people died.” She took a deep breath. “I went down to Nantasket beach yesterday and walked along the water. It’s where we used to go every summer. I was so cold.”

“Coldest winter in history so far,” Cormack said.

“I’m not talking about the weather,” Kit said. She looked back up at him. “I’m talking about me. It was our spot, so familiar to me it could be my home. But I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t feel him. The wind blew through me like I wasn’t even there—like I didn’t even fucking exist.” A tear ran down her cheek. “That’s what they took from me.” She shook her head. “They took everything.”

“What happened?”

She turned away from him. “I don’t talk about it.”

“Maybe you should.”

She shook her head. “It’s too much to think about.”

“Maybe if you talk about it, you’ll be able to let go of it finally.”