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Nick Stone
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Max Mingus wanted to turn down the casefifteen million bucks on the table or not. The boy was dead, Max was sure of it. Three years had passed since Haitian billionaire Allain Carvers five-year-old son was abducted. Why bother now? The huge bounty and the resources of the most powerful white family in Haiti hadnt turned up a lead.
Sure, Max had been the best detective in Miami once. But that was eight years back. Before he served time for killing a pair of junkie child-murderers. Before his wife, Sandra, died. Plus, hed heard what had happened to the other PIs sent to Haiti before himall dead, or their lives permanently screwed up, without ever getting close to finding Charlie Carver.
But with nothing left to loseand for all that moneyMax does go down there. The talk of voodoo and black magic is nothing compared to the haunting quiet of his own empty house. What Max doesnoaiti breeds in its inhabitants, a murky evil worse than death, which can easily swallow a man wholeespecially a troubled man like Max Mingus.
When the trail to Charlie Carver points to a local mythMr. Clarinet, a spirit figure who for decades is said to have been tempting children away from their familiescould the truth be even more shocking than the legend? Maxs job suddenly isnt all about finding the boy, his killers, "about-readmatter">
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