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  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. EPIGRAPH
  4. PRAISE
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. MAP
  7. PROLOGUE
  8. CHAPTER ONE
  9. CHAPTER TWO
  10. CHAPTER THREE
  11. CHAPTER FOUR
  12. CHAPTER FIVE
  13. CHAPTER SIX
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN
  15. CHAPTER EIGHT
  16. CHAPTER NINE
  17. CHAPTER TEN
  18. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  19. CHAPTER TWELVE
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  46. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  47. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  48. What’s next onyour reading list?

“There’ll be a gun in the trunk when you pick up the car,” said Condley, opening the door on the driver’s side. “Give it back to Ted Simolzak.”

Father Mike sighed wearily. “Are you saying Ted Simolzak is involved in this too?”

Condley tossed the knapsack containing Deville’s hand and now also the Glock into the backseat. “Not unless they take fingerprints off the casings from the bullets I shot,” he said. And then he laughed softly, remembering. “But I think he’s got an airtight alibi.”

“At the Cezanne, is he?”

“I doubt it,” said Condley, easing himself into the driver’s seat. “I made him a trade for the use of his pistol, Father. He’s probably got his hands full with that right now.”

“I won’t ask,” smiled Father Mike as Condley closed the door and started the Honda’s engine.

“Don’t, Father,” said Condley. He put his hands prayerfully together underneath his chin, everybody’s Bangkok good-bye. “It would only disappoint you.”

Then he waved and pulled out from the narrow driveway, turning onto the road.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

The Bangkok Post

Shoot-out in Klong Toey Kills Five

Rival Drug Gangs Clash

In a scene reminiscent of the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral, five men were shot dead last night in a shoot-out that took place in full view of residents and workers in the slaughterhouse section of Klong Toey. The five victims included two Vietnamese, two Burmese, and a Caucasian man who has yet to be identified. They were apparently members of a drug gang believed to be responsible for the death yesterday morning of Salvatore Marino, an American expatriate who had just returned from serving a sentence in Japan for running drugs in that country.

Witnesses say that the gunfight broke out when the five men, as well as several other members of their operation, were waiting for a cargo of hogs to be slaughtered and returned to their trucks. Mr. Marino had been found dead earlier in the day, with his left hand forcibly amputated, and the killers last night cut off the hand of one of the victims in seeming retaliation.

Witnesses claim that there were at least three attackers, all of whom escaped, although one may have been wounded. Local hospitals are being asked to report visits by anyone with suspicious gunshot wounds. Although the killings took place near the slaughterhouse pens of Klong Toey, police investigators claim that the killings were “almost definitely” drug related, due to the obvious connection with Mr. Marino’s murder. “It is a puzzle to us, but this was the work of professional hit men, and they certainly wouldn’t be killing each other over pigs,” said one police spokesman, who asked to remain nameless. The investigation will continue, he said, “until we have brought all sides to justice.”

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

The Honolulu
Advertiser

Deserter’s Remains Recovered

Bangkok Shoot-out Yields
Odd Results