Mango Meltdown or Berry Blast?”
The barrel erupted, spitting orange flashes of death and terror…
Jess!”
It took just minutes—frantic minutes—for Freddy Munoz and two other…
Hauck got the gash on his neck looked after, while…
The victim was a federal prosecutor working out of the…
Wendy Sanger had the bags packed and dragged downstairs. Haley…
Wendy Sanger sat numbly on the couch, her daughter’s raw…
The vehicle’s a file one, LT.” Munoz took Hauck around…
You have any connection to this case, Lieutenant?” Freddy looked…
Greenwich Hospital was on the way back to the station.
When Hauck got back to the station, Sunil and Munoz…
Bridgeport was just twenty minutes up the thruway from Greenwich,…
The place known as the Tombs was actually the Harry…
Freddy Munoz flipped a cassette into the recorder in interview…
It was after ten when Hauck finally made it home…
It hit him like a fist to the solar plexus.
It was the end of a long, crazy Saturday night,…
You don’t have to do this, she said to herself.
Ty…” Vern Fitzpatrick’s voice crackled over the office intercom around…
Hauck knocked on the door of the chief’s office, at…
She was sitting on the bench outside the squad room,…
It was the gun.
The Jetta was left in a vacant lot in a…
Annie was rushing.
Annie was sitting on a stool at the bar when…
The federal prison in Otisville, New York, was in the…
Outside, Freddy Munoz turned to Hauck as soon as they…
The man in the flat tweed cap and Burberry raincoat,…
Keith Kramer walked out of the Pequot Woods Resort and…
This was Hector Morales’s kind of party.
Brenda buzzed in Hauck’s office. “Lieutenant, call for you. Line…
Wendy Sanger shuffled into the kitchen and stared at the…
You believe in coincidence, Lieutenant?”
When Hauck got back to the station, Munoz jumped out…
Wendy Sanger was heading back up the walk to her…
As Hauck headed back to the office, his cell phone…
A return call from Joe Raines of the Pequot Woods…
Joe Raines put down the phone and stared out his…
That night, as Hauck was getting ready to leave, Vern…
Morales’s death put things on hold for a while.
From the thousands of acres of rolling woods ceded to…
Hauck’s room was large, on the thirty-second floor, with a…
Hauck ate by himself in the trendy Italian café, then…
Upstairs, Hauck unbuttoned his shirt, sat on the couch in…
Hauck opened his eyes the next morning. The light canted…
By ten, Hauck made it back to the station. He…
Hauck sat outside the gray shingled house on Pine Ridge…
Hauck took the long route back to Stamford on the…
Jesus, Warren, what the hell are you doing here?”
They cracked another beer and stepped out on the deck.
It was later—after Warren had passed out and was snoring…
The next morning, Warren was just waking up as Hauck…
Thanksgiving finally came. Without providing the answer Hauck was looking…
Thanksgiving morning, Hauck woke around eight.
The answer hit him as he drove along Elm, heading…
Monday, the first thing Hauck did was meet with Vern,…
They met at the Stanwich Country Club, out on North…
Maybe I’ll have that beer after all…”
That same night, a black Lincoln pulled up to the…
The next morning, Freddy Munoz leaned against the table across…
Annie Fletcher was at the computer. It was after eleven…
Freddy located the dealer. He came into Hauck’s office carrying…
Annie looked adorable.
The meal came off beautifully. The meatloaf was flavorful and…
In a darkened bar called the Alibi, off I-91, south…
Hauck made it on the road before four, only the…
Hauck stared at the house a long time before pulling…
The neighbors didn’t help.
If Brunswick was idyllic, picturesque, Lewiston was its ugly older…
They went out to the back on a screened-in porch…
The twin-engine Cessna 310 lifted off the ground from the…
To Hauck, the drive back felt like days. He felt…
Ira Wachman had put on his Burberry raincoat and cap…
Hauck exited the thruway at Atlantic Avenue, finally home. He…
The same dream left him sweating and awake for days.
It was after six that day when Hauck pulled up…
The phone continued to ring.
Warren remained there, blood on his shirt, his eye throbbing,…
Hauck drove out of town, heading back toward I-84 and…
He threw a top hat on the roof of the…
It took a few calls to set up. Vern was…
Hauck gazed past Raines’s shoulder at the crowd of milling…
Stan Taylor drove the Crown Vic away from the Pequot…
Hauck’s phone sounded as he headed north to Hartford.
The gated community was named Arapahoe Farms, about twenty minutes…
It was going on midnight when Hauck got back to…
He thought it was over.
A week later, Hauck had begun the task of finding…
Warren put down his phone. He put the Range Rover…
A Coast Guard helicopter spotted the wreckage about a hundred…
You think you know how the world works, don’t you,…
As Hauck approached them, Annie waved to him from along…
The week before Christmas, Hauck sat in the Explorer and…
Vern?”