Richard wanted to see his old friend, to talk things over face-to-face, to see what St. John was really talking about. It sounded vague and pie-in-the-sky, and nothing like the old hard-nosed, feet-on-the-ground St. John. Had St. John Larrimer really turned into the benevolent sap on the phone? “I’d love to see you, Sinj, I really would. But the territorial US is a little tricky for me right now. Still, we can make it happen. Can you come down here somehow? To Acapulco?”
“I understand, Richard,” St. John said. “We have to make it happen; I owe it to you. I have to tell you more than I can tell you right now. This project, this next iteration”—there was that word again—“will blow your mind.” Richard could have sworn he heard St. John chuckle just before he hung up the phone.
About the Author
PETER STEINER’s most famous cartoon in The New Yorker is the now-iconic “On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog.” He lives in Connecticut and a small town in France. He is also the author of Le Crime, The Terrorist, L’Assassin, and The Resistance.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
About the Author
Also by Peter Steiner
Copyright
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First Edition: February 2016