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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.

That scene was seriously weird. Something really off about that whole situation. Dangerous, though it felt like they were both playing roles.

I’m being paranoid.

No, I’m not.

The last thing I look like is a robbery suspect. I might have a little scruff, but other than that I’m a clean-cut guy. Not to mention my nice jeans and Nat Nast shirt. Maybe a bank robber, but not a common street robber. What the fuck? But seriously, the Nast shirt alone is unique in design and color. Who’d be stupid enough to rob someone wearing this shirt?

Takes some kinda dope to play a joke like that on his rookie. Takes an idiot to play it on me. Even those I know well on the department, like Luna or Millhoff, wouldn’t pull something like that. Hell, maybe Jasper was telling the truth; I’d really like to think he’s just an idiot FTO.

I go to bed early, fall in and out of sleep for most of the night. When I wake up again, it’s not even 7:00 a.m. Fuck it, I’m up.

I loaf around, get a call for a job, some guy who needs an employee checked out for possible embezzlement. Said he heard about me through another client. I turn it down. “Unfortunately, I’ll be committed for at least two weeks,” I tell him. “Call back then if you don’t find anyone else.”

I check my iPhone for the local news, see if there’s anything new. Jeffrey’s mom is all over the place. I need to stay off this thing. It’s just gonna drive me crazy. I half expect Millhoff and company to kick my door in any day. How crazy is that? And then last night. I still can’t shake what happened. And no, I’ll never admit that it scared the living shit outta me. Hell, no.

I figure, as hard as it is, I’m gonna try to burn that feeling out of my system. I drop to do my push-ups, then the crunches. But for some reason, I just feel more pissed off when I’m done.

Twenty-Six

Twenty-Six

The majority of burglars in DC are crackheads, and the one thing I know about crackheads is that they’re predictable. They have a habit bound by routine and, after a while, by superstition. They stick to their regular spots and the people they have grown to trust. That goes for where they sell the stolen goods or trade them for drugs, where they have to go afterward to buy the crack and smoke it, and sometimes who they will smoke it with.