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Chapters (95)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. Twenty-One
  26. Twenty-Two
  27. Twenty-Three
  28. Twenty-Four
  29. Twenty-Five
  30. Twenty-Six
  31. Twenty-Seven
  32. Twenty-Eight
  33. Twenty-Nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-One
  36. Thirty-Two
  37. Thirty-Three
  38. Thirty-Four
  39. Thirty-Five
  40. Thirty-Six
  41. Thirty-Seven
  42. Thirty-Eight
  43. Thirty-Nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-One
  46. Forty-Two
  47. Forty-Three
  48. Forty-Four
  49. Forty-Five
  50. Forty-Six
  51. Forty-Seven
  52. Forty-Eight
  53. Forty-Nine
  54. Fifty
  55. Fifty-One
  56. Fifty-Two
  57. Fifty-Three
  58. Fifty-Four
  59. Fifty-Five
  60. Fifty-Six
  61. Fifty-Seven
  62. Fifty-Eight
  63. Fifty-Nine
  64. Sixty
  65. Sixty-One
  66. Sixty-Two
  67. Sixty-Three
  68. Sixty-Four
  69. Sixty-Five
  70. Sixty-Six
  71. Sixty-Seven
  72. Sixty-Eight
  73. Sixty-Nine
  74. Seventy
  75. Seventy-One
  76. Seventy-Two
  77. Seventy-Three
  78. Seventy-Four
  79. Seventy-Five
  80. Seventy-Six
  81. Seventy-Seven
  82. Seventy-Eight
  83. Seventy-Nine
  84. Eighty
  85. Eighty-One
  86. Eighty-Two
  87. Eighty-Three
  88. Eighty-Four
  89. Eighty-Five
  90. Eighty-Six
  91. Eighty-Seven
  92. Acknowledgements
  93. About the Author
  94. Also by David Swinson
  95. Thank you for buying this ebook, published by Hachette Digital.

Tommy supplied information to the crew who killed him, even had an ongoing affair with one of the other teen girls at the brothel. So maybe they wanted him dead. I know they wanted me dead. Nearly got me, too, but luck was on my side that day.

Can that be the reason for all this now? I can’t figure it—except, like I said, maybe my showing up to the club all that time later opened old wounds for Jasper. Maybe he wanted to take it out on me or actually does blame me, because if I hadn’t taken the case, and if I hadn’t found the girl at that moment, Officer Tommy, his nephew, might still be alive. Silly kind of vengeance, if you ask me, because most of the people truly answerable for the crime are in prison.

“One of the special agents on the task force did a full background on Jasper,” Hurley begins. “That’s how we found out Woodrow was his nephew. And Biddy, or Givens, said Jasper had your house targeted, so he’s definitely got it in for you. I don’t know. That’s all we got right now. Too much to be coincidental.”

That word’s coming up a lot.

“That’s ridiculous.”

But then I’ve seen a lot of ridiculousness in my time.

“You have the kid from the hospital, and now Biddy, so it’s looking good, right?” I ask.

“Yeah, but you know how an investigation like this can go. It’s not something immediate.”

“But Jasper doesn’t have a clue, right?” I ask.

“No. Unless our other source is playing both sides.”

“You know those boys on Riggs work for Jasper?”

“I’m beginning to think you got a bug on me. How do you know all this?”

“From Biddy or Robby or Graham. Whatever you want to call him. But he’s not my bug; he’s your bug now.”

“I know they work for him. But Jasper is still working the part-time at the club, so it doesn’t look like he’s worried about anything.”

“If he finds out Biddy’s been locked up, he will be,” I say.

“We don’t even have IA involved in this. That’s the benefit of working with the feds. They’ll be notified when and if we get a warrant for Jasper. It’s totally in-house.”

“If?”

“You know what I mean,” he says.

Seventy-Four

Seventy-Four

More than anything, I want to take care of this shit myself. Go sit on the club when I know he’s working, follow him home after. Bust into his home when he leaves for work and get my music and laptop back, put the hurt on him for having Jeffrey killed—and Diamond. I’m a fucking liar, but this guy’s a psychopath.