Contents ( 98)
Now You See Her
Zoo
Step on a Crack
Run for Your Life
Worst Case
Tick Tock
I, Michael Bennett
Gone
Burn
Alert
Bullseye
Chase
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
STOP AT NOTHING
Michael Ledwidge
A Novel
About the Author
Michael Ledwidge is the writer of seventeen novels, the last dozen being New York Times bestsellers cowritten with one of the world’s bestselling authors, James Patterson. With twenty million copies in print, their Michael Bennett series is the highest-selling New York City detective series of all time. One of their novels, Zoo, became a three-season CBS television series. He lives in Connecticut.
The author would like to thank the following for their professionalism, advice and belief in this book:
Josh Getzler and everyone at the Hannigan Getzler Agency
And especially Peter Joseph and his excellent team at Hanover Square Press
Contents
Part One
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
Part Two
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
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Part Three
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Part Four
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Epilogue
PART ONE
Catch of the Day
1
When the sun started to go down, Gannon was out alone on his boat in the Atlantic thirty miles northwest of Little Abaco.
His boat was called the Donegal Rambler, and it was a forty-foot Delta diving boat with covered seating at the back and tank racks that could hold twenty cylinders. But he’d removed most of the tanks when he’d headed out that morning, and in their place he had seven sea rods set up on outrigger mounts.
Up in the slowly chugging boat’s open flying bridge, Gannon stood with his back to the wheel, carefully watching where the rods’ green-tinged monofilament lines trailed back into the boat’s bubbling wake like the strings of a submerged puppet.
The lines were baited with mackerel and squid and jig lures, and he was trolling them along at a steady nine knots to make them appear to be a swimming school of juicy fish.