“Yeah?” Donnie said, sitting up straight and leaning into the table. “Is he alive?”

The man nodded. “My name’s Holliday,” he said. “I am the federal agent in charge of north Mississippi. Quinn Colson is my friend.”

“So what?”

“I know the folks who tried to kill him.”

“And?”

“I’ve got an idea of how to get ’em.”

“Wish I could help,” Donnie said. “But I’m a little busy being rehabilitated. I’m not in that life no more. I deal in leather. I could make you one hell of a belt to go with those fancy boots.”

“How’d you feel about getting right back in it?” the man said. “Helping us. Helping Quinn. And, in the process, shaving some years off that sentence?”

Donnie leaned back in the hard prison chair, front legs lifting off the floor, as he scratched at his cheek. “Hmm,” he said, shrugging a bit. “What exactly is it that you have in mind?”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ace Atkins is the author of twenty-three books, including eight Quinn Colson novels, the first two of which, The Ranger and The Lost Ones, were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (he has a third Edgar nomination for his short story "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"). He is the author of seven New York Times-bestselling novels in the continuation of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Before turning to fiction, he was a correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times and a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune, and he played defensive end for Auburn University football.

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