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M I C H A E L C R A V E N
Contents
Chapter 1
Donald Tremaine, the ex-pro surfer, the ex-husband, the current private…
1
Chapter 2
Standing in front of the trailer’s door, the woman said,… 5
Chapter 3
The first person Tremaine needed to call was his old…
13
Chapter 4
Tremaine went for another cup of coffee and thought, no,…
17
Chapter 5
Tremaine walked over to his neighbor’s trailer.
The guy who…
21
Chapter 6
The next day, a big packet arrived via messenger from… 33
Chapter 7
Tremaine and Nina Aldeen decided to meet at noon at… 38
Chapter 8
Two days later, Tremaine got up, went for a surf,…
47
Chapter 9
Mary O’Shaughnessy and Tremaine sat in a small conference
room…
53
Chapter 10
Jack Sawyer was a man Laurie had told Tremaine he…
61
Chapter 11
Tremaine walked back to Laurie Donnelly’s office after a long…
67
Chapter 12
The next morning, Tremaine woke up in the trailer,
slammed…
73
Chapter 13
Tremaine’s hangover, from his night with Lopez, made the Jumble…
81
Chapter 14
Tremaine pulled the Cutlass up to Evelyn Gale’s palatial house…
95
Chapter 15
Tremaine pulled the Cutlass onto Rialto in Venice.
He was…
102
Chapter 16
Tremaine woke up, 7:00 A.M., feeling good, feeling rested,
lying…
108
Chapter 17
Tremaine pulled into the trailer park at dusk. He went…
118
Chapter 18
The next morning, even before walking Lyle, Tremaine dialed up…
124
Chapter 19
On the way back from LAX, Tremaine heading home to… 136
Chapter 20
That night, at the Lobster, a restaurant right by the…
139
Chapter 21
Wendy Leahy said, yeah, sure, I’ll talk to you, when…
148
Chapter 22
Tremaine was driving along, thinking, thinking first about Wendy Leahy…
154
Chapter 23
Tremaine knocked on Marvin Kearns’s door.
This time, he was…
160
Chapter 24
It was noon. Tremaine was back at the trailer park,…
168
Chapter 25
The three of them, Tyler, Marvin, and Tremaine, were now…
174
Chapter 26
Tremaine was on his way down to the karate place.
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Chapter 27
Tremaine left the strip mall and drove two miles west,… 187
Chapter 28
Tremaine was on the roof of his trailer in Malibu,…
192
Chapter 29
The next morning, Tremaine woke up in the trailer. He’d…
199
Chapter 30
Kelly Burch had lived on North Harper, in Hollywood. Tremaine…
204
Chapter 31
Finding Evan Mulligan was, in a word, easy. Vicky Fong… 215
Chapter 32
The next day, a Saturday, Tremaine got up, and instead…
223
Chapter 33
The next day, driving toward the Hollywood Hills, toward Dean…
232
Chapter 34
Tremaine got home at about seven. He sat in the…
242
Chapter 35
Tremaine got back to L.A., tired from driving through
the…
254
Chapter 36
Tremaine got home. Exhausted. Confused. Angry.
Now was the time,…
260
Chapter 37
Tremaine got in the Cutlass instantly.
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Chapter 38
After leaving Gale/Parker, still in his car, Tremaine called John…
270
Chapter 39
Tremaine pulled the Cutlass into Crystal Point, into the Malibu…
274
Chapter 40
Sitting at Nina’s house two nights later, Tremaine could feel…
282
Chapter 41
A week later, Tremaine was up on the roof of…
287
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
C H A P T E R 1
Donald Tremaine, the ex-pro surfer, the ex-husband, the current private eye and Malibu trailer park resident, looked in the mirror and said, “Happy birthday, old man.”
He was thirty-nine. He didn’t feel thirty-nine, though.
He didn’t. He felt forty-six. But that was because he’d celebrated the night before with a couple friends and more than a couple cocktails.
Tremaine dropped to the floor and cranked out fifty push-ups. As he finished number fifty, he said, “Ouch.”
His morning routine hurt a little more than usual. That was also because of the previous night’s activities, not because he was officially one year older. That