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  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. Contents
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  48. Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
  49. About the Author

I’m also indebted to several other past and present law enforcement officers for their wise counsel—including Paul Bishop, Robin Burcell, David Putnam, and Lee Lofland.

And, finally, I’m grateful to authors Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot, the other two civilians at the seminar, for letting me take dibs on this great story.

The wildfire at the end of this book is also a work of fiction . . . or at least it was when I wrote it.

I completed this novel months before the Woolsey Fire swept through Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, Agoura, Bell Canyon, West Hills, Calabasas, and Malibu in November 2018, eventually burning 97,000 acres and 1,600 structures during its devastating march to the sea.

The fire forced me and my family to evacuate our Calabasas home and seek shelter with my sister in Santa Clarita. One of the things I brought with me (among the important papers, jewelry, family photos, artwork, et cetera that we hurriedly gathered and stuffed in the car) was the copyedited manuscript for this book, which my editor had sent me a few days earlier to proofread.

So I found myself in the surreal situation of editing my scenes of a wildfire sweeping through Malibu Creek State Park as the same events I had imagined were happening live on TV.

I’m glad to say our home survived the fire, though the flames came frighteningly close . . . almost as close as my fiction came to reality.

About the Author

About the Author

Photo © Roland Scarpa

Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the Ian Ludlow thrillers Killer Thriller and True Fiction, King City, The Walk, fifteen Monk mysteries, and the internationally bestselling Fox & O’Hare books (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, and The Pursuit) cowritten with Janet Evanovich. He has also written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk, and is the co-creator of the Hallmark movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing, and production of episodic television series. You can find more information about Lee and his work at www.leegoldberg.com.

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