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Chapters (51)
  1. About the Book
  2. About the Author
  3. Also by Kimberley Chambers
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Epigraph
  8. Prologue
  9. Chapter One
  10. Chapter Two
  11. Chapter Three
  12. Chapter Four
  13. Chapter Five
  14. Chapter Six
  15. Chapter Seven
  16. Chapter Eight
  17. Chapter Nine
  18. Chapter Ten
  19. Chapter Eleven
  20. Chapter Twelve
  21. Chapter Thirteen
  22. Chapter Fourteen
  23. Chapter Fifteen
  24. Chapter Sixteen
  25. Chapter Seventeen
  26. Chapter Eighteen
  27. Chapter Nineteen
  28. Chapter Twenty
  29. Chapter Twenty-One
  30. Chapter Twenty-Two
  31. Chapter Twenty-Three
  32. Chapter Twenty-Four
  33. Chapter Twenty-Five
  34. Chapter Twenty-Six
  35. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  36. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  37. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  38. Chapter Thirty
  39. Chapter Thirty-One
  40. Chapter Thirty-Two
  41. Chapter Thirty-Three
  42. Chapter Thirty-Four
  43. Chapter Thirty-Five
  44. Chapter Thirty-Six
  45. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  46. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  47. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  48. Chapter Forty
  49. Chapter Forty-One
  50. Copyright
  51. Cover

Shaking his head in utter disbelief, Eddie shook Freddie’s hand. ‘Thanks mate. I’ll get Raymond to pop your dosh over to you later in the week.’

Flatnose Freddie shook his head. ‘Call it a favour, pal.’

‘There you are. What you doing, Dad? Me, Gary and Joey have been searching high and low for ya,’ Ricky said, as he poked his head around the brick wall.

Pulling himself together, Eddie smiled falsely. With the wake being held in the Flag, he had to keep schtum about his discovery for now, because in the circles he mixed in, people had ears like little bats.

‘You know me, boy, I hate that grave bit, it gives me the fucking heebies. Go and tell your brothers I’ll be over in a sec.’

When Ricky walked away, Eddie turned back to Freddie. ‘You’ll be OK to get rid of any waste for me, won’t ya, mate?’

Flatnose Freddie grinned. There were hundreds of missing persons propped up in flyovers all over the country and they were mostly down to him. He was an expert with a cement mixer. ‘Does the Pope fucking pray?’ he chuckled.

Chapter Twenty-Two

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

In the weeks following his brothers’ funerals Eddie returned to his focused, jolly, businesslike self. Flatnose Freddie’s revelation had left him thunderstruck at the time, but once the news had finally sunk in, Eddie had felt nothing but relief. Knowing that he’d had sod-all to do with murdering his own brothers was a wonderful feeling and, as the guilt ebbed away from his body, Ed felt his sanity return.

The next day was Gina’s thirty-fifth birthday and Ed could barely wait to present her with the biggest surprise she’d ever had. She didn’t have a clue what he’d planned, bless her, and Ed couldn’t wait to see the shocked expression on her face when she found out.

Once tomorrow was over, it was going to be all guns blazing, literally. Jamie Carroll was the first on Eddie’s hit list. Gary and Ricky had been clocking Carroll’s movements for over three weeks now. He lived in Harold Hill and Ed planned to abduct him outside his local snooker hall, which he seemed to frequent as regular as clockwork on a Monday night.

Terry Baldwin had been pinpointed as victim number two. He’d recently returned from Australia alone; as word had it, his wife had decided to spend some extra time with her family, which suited Ed perfectly. Raymond had been clocking Baldwin and they’d decided to abduct him at his own house.