Excerpt from The Recruit by Alan Drew, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

When she had arrived just after dawn, she had found the detective right here, in a fog of steam next to the pool, leaning on a black umbrella and talking scenarios out loud to himself. Now he tapped the aluminum tip of the umbrella against the cement pool edge, as though putting a quiet exclamation mark on an important thought.

"Real fancy, this one," Vanek said, "silk pajamas, slippers."

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