Contents

About the Book

About the Author

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Author’s Note

Map

Prologue

Introduction

Part I—Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Off the Lights?

1. The Crisis

2. The Consultant

3. The Contract

4. The Shooter

5. Help Us, Don’t Kill Us

6. Planning Our Escape

7. Me, I Wouldn’t Fly It

8. A Mother’s Gift

9. Suffer the Little Children

10. Yo Ho Ho and a Sprig of Qat

11. Who Invited You Here?

12. I Will Not Drop Blood

13. Nobody Knows Where the Bullets Go

14. One of the Local Girls

15. Saved by the Bush

Part II—Death Be Not Proud

16. Gentle Sleeps the Night

17. The Tribe of the Damned

18. Python in the Bath

19. Blood Sport

20. Heaven Is Just a Sin Away

21. A Rolling Stone and a Squeaky Wheel

22. One of the Boys

23. Death of an Angel

Epilogue

Afterword—The Broken Gate

Notes

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Copyright