Chapters (46)
- COVER PAGE
- PRAISE
- DEDICATION
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- TWENTY-FIVE
- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY-ONE
- THIRTY-TWO
- THIRTY-THREE
- THIRTY-FOUR
- THIRTY-FIVE
- THIRTY-SIX
- THIRTY-SEVEN
- THIRTY-EIGHT
- THIRTY-NINE
- FORTY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- SNEAK PEEK: EXIT .45
She was looking at her side mirror. Nothing behind them except the glow of the house. Lit windows arrayed in perfect hovering geometry. The open front door with its wedge of glow folded to the shape of the steps.
Erin said, ‘Give me a minute.’
She got out and shut her door and walked toward the house. Vincent waited for her in the car. It was pleasant sitting out there in the cool evening with the engine off and the window down, hearing the wind in the trees. Twenty minutes later, Erin came out and got in beside him.
‘All good?’
‘Not for her. She fell in the swimming pool and drowned.’
Vincent started the engine.
He said, ‘I heard they can get a bit slippery around the edge.’
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many thanks to my agents David Hale Smith and Naomi Eisenbeiss at InkWell Management in New York for their insightful comments on early drafts, and their invaluable assistance in getting Vincent into print.
This is the fourth book that I have done with the Allen & Unwin team, and they are always a pleasure to work with. Thanks in particular to Jane Palfreyman, Tom Bailey-Smith, Ali Lavau, Claire de Medici, Melanie Laville-Moore and Abba Renshaw.
Finally, special thanks to my wonderful and supportive partner, Kate Ramsay, who never complains when she hears from the office: ‘Can you please come and listen to this bit?’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ben Sanders is the author of American Blood, Marshall’s Law and The Stakes, as well as three New Zealand fiction bestsellers: The Fallen, By Any Means and Only the Dead. Sanders’ first three novels were written while he was studying at university. American Blood, his highly anticipated American debut, was published in November 2015, followed by Marshall’s Law in April 2017 and The Stakes in January 2018. Sanders lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
SNEAK PEEK: EXIT .45
COMING IN JANUARY 2022
EXIT .45
Ben Sanders
When a former NYPD colleague is shot dead in front of him, private investigator Marshall Grade discovers there’s far more to the killing than meets the eye.
Ray Vialoux is in trouble. Big trouble. And he needs Marshall Grade’s help.
Reluctantly, Grade agrees to meet. Over dinner in a Brooklyn restaurant, he learns that his former NYPD colleague owes money – a lot of money – to the wrong people. But the conversation is cut short by gunfire, and suddenly Ray is lying dead on the restaurant floor.
As Marshall investigates the circumstances leading up to the murder, tracking down the drug dealers, bag men, bent cops and mob players within Ray’s orbit, it becomes clear there’s far more to the killing than a gambling debt. Just who is responsible for Vialoux’s death … and why? What secrets are his family hiding? And can Marshall find the answers before his own history marks him as the prime suspect?