YOU GIVE ME REASON TO LIVE.
A chill swept through Max, right then. His insides turned ice-cold. There was a note from Paul inside the envelope:
MaxWe found this in the villa you were staying in. On the pillow. He got away from us. I didn't tell you then, because of what was happening. We're looking for him. Don't worry. He won't get away again. Be safe. VP
No you won't. You won't get him, thought Max. You should've killed him when you had the chance.
Max looked back at the photograph and studied Boukman's face.
They'd meet again, he knew itnot tomorrow, not even soon, but sometime down the line. It was inevitable, the way some things simply are. They had unfinished business.
* * *
Christmas Eve.
Max walked out of Miami airport and found a cab. He put the bags in the back and got in.
"Where to?" the driver asked.
Max hadn't given his next move any thought. He considered going back to the Radisson Kendall again, maybe for a week, to get his head together and a few things straight.
Then he thought better of it.
"Home," Max said, giving the driver the address of his house in Key Biscayne. "Take me home."
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WITH VERY SPECIAL thanks to Claire Wachtel and Beverley Cousins.
And to those without whom
Dad; The Mighty Bromfields: Cecil, Lucy, Gregory, David, Sonia, Colin, Janice, Brian, and Lynette; Novlyn, Errol & Dwayne Thompson; Tim Heath, Suzanne Lovell, Angie Robinson, Rupert Stone, Jan & Vi, Sally & Dick Gallagher, Lloyd Strickland, Pauli & Tiina Toivola, The Count, Jonathan Burnham, Joe Veltre, Andrew Holmes, Ken Bruen, Ali Karim, Mr. G, Rick Saba, Christine Stone, Robert & Sonia Philipps, Al & Pedro Diaz, Janet Clarke, Tomas Carruthers, Chas Cook, Clare Oxborrow, Michael und die Familie Schmidt, Georg und die Familie Bischof, Haarm van Maanen, Bill Pearson, Lindsay Leslie-Miller, Peter Myles, Claire Harvey, Emma Riddington, Lisa Godwin, Big T, Max Allen, Alex Walsh, Steve Purdom, Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcella Edwards, Mike Mastrangelo, Thor, Seamus "The Legend" and Cal De Grammont, Scottish John, Anthony Armstrong Burns of E2, Shahid Iqbal, Abdul Moquith, Khoi Quan-Khio, mon frčre Fouad, Whittards and Wrigley's.
thank you!
About the Author
NICK STONE is the son of eminent historian Norman Stone and a Haitian mother who is a descendant of Haiti's oldest family, the Aubrys. Raised in Haiti and a graduate of Cambridge University, he lives in London.
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Table of Contents
Epigraph
PROLOGUE
Part 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part 2
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Part 3
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
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Part 4
Chapter 44