Shamus Award-winning Author Jeremiah Healy snares a wider following of fans with each new novel staring Boston privat eye John Francis Cuddy. Now he hits another bull’s-eye with a taut, compelling tale that proves once again why his Cuddy series is “one of today’s best”
(Kevin Moore, Chicago Sun-Times).
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"If I ever got lost or anything, would you come help me?"
When he sees the Dodge Swinger by the side of the road, I two kids staring helplessly at its flat tire, John Cuddy has to stop. The boy's entreaty triggers a long-buried memory from Vietnam, and Cuddy makes him a solemn promise. Eddie seems a typical ten-year-old but for the red birthmark that spans his face like a map of Texas. His teenage companion, Melinda, is scared yet defiant. Less than twenty-four hours later, Melinda's body is found in the South Boston Channel, Eddie has disappeared, and Cuddy is off, ricocheting from New Hampshire to the Florida Keys to fulfill his pledge to a little boy. Along the way he meets sinister religious zealots, a lovely Conch barmaid—who ruefully admires Cuddy's unshakable commitment to assistant D.A. IMancy Meagher back home—and a World War II vet and his gutsy wife. Charging deep into a deadly swamp of child abuse, police corruption, and pure madness, Cuddy will stop at nothing to keep his promise to Eddie....
"A DOOZY...The story unfolds beautifully, and tensely, from its seductive opening...the ending, with its muted victories, is very moving....This is exciting, thoughtful, wily fiction."—Paul Skenazy, The Washington Post
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