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Chapters (113)
  1. NATCHEZBURNING
  2. GREG ILES
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. PART ONE
  7. 1964–1968
  8. CHAPTER 1
  9. CHAPTER 2
  10. CHAPTER 3
  11. PART TWO
  12. 2005
  13. MONDAY
  14. CHAPTER 4
  15. CHAPTER 5
  16. CHAPTER 6
  17. CHAPTER 7
  18. CHAPTER 8
  19. CHAPTER 9
  20. CHAPTER 10
  21. CHAPTER 11
  22. CHAPTER 12
  23. CHAPTER 13
  24. CHAPTER 14
  25. CHAPTER 15
  26. CHAPTER 16
  27. CHAPTER 17
  28. CHAPTER 18
  29. CHAPTER 19
  30. CHAPTER 20
  31. CHAPTER 21
  32. CHAPTER 22
  33. CHAPTER 23
  34. CHAPTER 24
  35. CHAPTER 25
  36. CHAPTER 26
  37. CHAPTER 27
  38. CHAPTER 28
  39. CHAPTER 29
  40. CHAPTER 30
  41. CHAPTER 31
  42. CHAPTER 32
  43. TUESDAY
  44. CHAPTER 33
  45. CHAPTER 34
  46. CHAPTER 35
  47. CHAPTER 36
  48. CHAPTER 37
  49. CHAPTER 38
  50. CHAPTER 39
  51. CHAPTER 40
  52. CHAPTER 41
  53. CHAPTER 42
  54. CHAPTER 43
  55. CHAPTER 44
  56. CHAPTER 45
  57. CHAPTER 46
  58. CHAPTER 47
  59. CHAPTER 48
  60. CHAPTER 49
  61. CHAPTER 50
  62. CHAPTER 51
  63. CHAPTER 52
  64. CHAPTER 53
  65. CHAPTER 54
  66. CHAPTER 55
  67. CHAPTER 56
  68. CHAPTER 57
  69. CHAPTER 58
  70. WEDNESDAY
  71. CHAPTER 59
  72. CHAPTER 60
  73. CHAPTER 61
  74. CHAPTER 62
  75. CHAPTER 63
  76. CHAPTER 64
  77. CHAPTER 65
  78. CHAPTER 66
  79. CHAPTER 67
  80. CHAPTER 68
  81. CHAPTER 69
  82. CHAPTER 70
  83. CHAPTER 71
  84. CHAPTER 72
  85. CHAPTER 73
  86. CHAPTER 74
  87. CHAPTER 75
  88. CHAPTER 76
  89. CHAPTER 77
  90. CHAPTER 78
  91. CHAPTER 79
  92. CHAPTER 80
  93. CHAPTER 81
  94. CHAPTER 82
  95. CHAPTER 83
  96. CHAPTER 84
  97. CHAPTER 85
  98. CHAPTER 86
  99. CHAPTER 87
  100. CHAPTER 88
  101. CHAPTER 89
  102. CHAPTER 90
  103. CHAPTER 91
  104. CHAPTER 92
  105. CHAPTER 93
  106. CHAPTER 94
  107. CHAPTER 95
  108. CHAPTER 96
  109. CHAPTER 97
  110. AFTERWORD
  111. BOOKS BY GREG ILES
  112. Copyright
  113. About the Publisher

Caitlin rubbed her eyes so hard she saw spots. Then she set her elbows on her knees and gave Glass an unguarded gaze. “When I was thirteen, I worked at one of my father’s newspapers. I saw some photographs there that had just been shot in El Salvador. A massacre by a death squad. A lady who worked at our paper was so proud that a young American woman had shot those pictures. Do you remember who shot them?”

Jordan tapped the coffee table as though bored or frustrated. “Me.”

“Those pictures went a long way toward leading me to where I am now.”

Glass’s smile looked forced. She’d obviously heard this kind of thing a thousand times before. Her eyes focused somewhere in the darkness across the lobby. “I’m not the same person I was then. I’m tired. I’m ready to stop—for a while anyway.” She put her face in her hands and massaged her temples as though to relieve a headache. “I’m not that girl who sneaked into a village and shot those pictures anymore.” She looked up at Caitlin. “But you are. That’s why I gave you that advice. You’re not thinking straight right now, because of what happened. But tomorrow you will be again.”

Caitlin had never felt so validated as she did in that moment.

“John’s not exactly himself right now, either,” Jordan said. “You should know that. When you criticized the Bureau out there, it really hurt him.”

Caitlin shrugged, but she didn’t apologize.

“John knows the Bureau failed all those years ago. It failed the murder victims, the families, even its own agents. He wants to make that right. When he tells you he’s on your side, he means it.”

“He’s gotten a lot done in a short time, I’ll give him that.”

“Thanks to Henry and Penn. And you.”

Caitlin was suddenly nervous. “I haven’t done anything yet. But I’m going to.”

Jordan’s eyebrows rose. “Something you probably shouldn’t be doing?”

“That depends on your point of view.”

“What’s your plan? Just between us and the coffee table? No shit.”

What the hell? Caitlin thought, suddenly realizing that she trusted Jordan Glass more than many people she’d known for years. “I want to find Pooky Wilson’s bones. I think Pooky and Jimmy may have been killed or dumped at the same place.”

“And you know where that is?”

“Maybe. I’ve got a good lead. One nobody else has. Maybe that’s what I’ll keep for myself.”

“Does Penn know what you know?”

“No.”

Jordan smiled in the shadows. “A girl after my own heart. So where are these mysterious bones?”