Secret Lives
Chapters (45)
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Back Cover
Front Cover
Title Page
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Books. Change. Lives.
Copyright
Copyright © 2022 by Mark de Castrique
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Cover design and illustration by Andrew Davis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: De Castrique, Mark, author.
Title: Secret lives / Mark de Castrique.
Description: Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2022]
Identifiers: LCCN 2022006642 (print) | LCCN 2022006643 (ebook) | (trade paperback) | (epub)
Subjects: LCGFT: Detective and mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3604.E124 S42 2022 (print) | LCC PS3604.E124
(ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23/eng/20220225
Contents
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Cover
For new granddaughter Lucy
Welcome. A world of books awaits you…
“There is something addictive about a secret.”
—J. Edgar Hoover
Chapter 1
Jonathan Finch saw the dark sedan parked where he’d been told it would be—on the top level of the parking deck near Whole Foods in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. At four in the morning, the county across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, came as close to shutdown as anytime, except for the occasional snowstorm. Finch’s Ford Escape SUV and the sedan were the only vehicles in sight, and with headlights off and windows tinted, they appeared as shadowy shapes illuminated by a half-moon and the ambient light from the streetlamps below.
Finch would have preferred a more crowded, public rendezvous site, but he also understood anonymity figured predominantly in any transaction. Security meant precautions, and those precautions varied from person to person, or p2p, as expressed in this world. Peer-to-peer.