The FBI Thrillers Collection Books 6-10 - Catherine Coulter [0]
Hemlock Bay
Eleventh Hour
Blindside
Blowout
Point Blank
Catherine Coulter
Table of Contents
Hemlock Bay
Eleventh Hour
Blindside
Blowout
Point Blank
HEMLOCK BAY
HEMLOCK BAY
Catherine Coulter
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Publishers Since 1838 a member of
Penguin Putnam Inc.
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
Copyright © 2001 by Catherine Coulter
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
Published simultaneously in Canada
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coulter, Catherine.
Hemlock Bay / Catherine Coulter.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-1012-1455-8
1. Government investigators—Fiction. 2. Married people—Fiction. 3. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 4. Maryland—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.O843 H46 2001 2001019711
813'.54—dc21
http://us.penguingroup.com
I wish to thank the following people at FBI Headquarters and at Quantico for their generosity and enthusiasm.
William Hayden Matens, Special Agent, retired
Thomas B. Locke, DAD, Inspection Division
David R. Knowlton, Assistant Director, Inspection Division
Wade M. Jackson, Unit Chief, Firearms Training Unit
Gary J. Hutchison, Agent Instructor
Alan H. Marshall, Special Agent, Indoor Range
Jeffrey Higginbotham, Assistant Director, Training Division
Douglas W. Deedrick, Unit Chief, Information and Evidence Management Unit
Lester “wingtips” Davis, Officer, National Academy Association
Ruben Garcia, Jr., Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division
Kenneth McCabe, Section Chief, Laboratory Division
Michael J. Perry, Firearms Instructor
Sheri A. Farrar, Deputy Assistant Director, Administrative Services Division
Royce Curtin, Special Agent, Hostage Rescue Team
Stephen R. Band, Unit Chief, Behavior Sciences Unit
Lew Elliott, who teaches cops how to fight
I wish to thank my husband, Dr. Anton Pogany, yet again, for his excellent instincts and his eagle eye that never misses a thing—he remains the Editor from Hell.
Contents
1Near the Plum River, Maryland
2Hemlock Bay, California
3
4Hemlock Bay, California
5Eureka, California
6Hemlock Bay, California
7
8Eureka, California The Mermaid’s Tail
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10Eureka, California The Mermaid’s Tail
11Washington, D.C. Three days later
12
13Quantico
14New York City
15Quantico
16
17Eureka, California The Mermaid’s Tail
18Eureka
19Saint John’s, Antigua Public Administration Building, near Reed Airport
20Eureka, California
21Saint John’s, Antigua
22Hemlock Bay, California
23Bar Harbor, Maine
24Bar Harbor, Maine
25Bar Harbor, Maine
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28Washington, D.C.
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30Washington, D.C.
1
Near the Plum River, Maryland
It was a chilly day in late October. A stiff wind whipped the last colorful leaves off the trees. The sun was shining down hard and bright on the dilapidated red barn that hadn’t been painted in forty years. Streaks of washed-out red were all that was left of the last paint job. There was no charm left, at all.
FBI Special Agent Dillon Savich eased around the side of the barn, his SIG Sauer in his right hand. It had taken discipline and practice, but he’d learned to move so quietly that he could sneak up on a mouse. Three agents, one of them his wife, were some twenty feet behind him, covering him, ready to fan out in any direction necessary, all of them wearing Kevlar vests. A dozen more agents were slowly working their way up the other side of the barn, their orders to wait for a signal from Savich. Sheriff Dade of Jedbrough County and three deputies were stationed in the thick stand of maple trees just thirty feet behind them. One of the deputies, a sharpshooter, had his sights trained on the barn.
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