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Kerley Jack

Книга "The Apostle"

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    2. Copyright Published by H...
    3. Dedication To Floyd and ...
    4. Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication ...
    5. 1 Miami, April “I’m putting in the last of Christ’s blood....
    6. 2 Mobile, Alabama. Mid May “Carson. Yo, brother. Wake up.”...
    7. 3 I bought a Miami Herald for the flight and returned to Miami. The headlines ha...
    8. 4 Harry Nautilus was half-reclined on his couch and listening to a YouTube uploa...
    9. 5 It was eight a.m., the oblique sun lighting a soft mist that rose from a brief...
    10. 6 I awoke at eight twenty with the vague recollection of dreams made of flames a...
    11. 7 Teresa Mailey opened her eyes. Or had she? The dark with her eyes open was dar...
    12. 8 Belafonte stared into her Earl Grey. I think it’s where her eyes needed to res...
    13. 9 I was crossing the parking lot when my phone rang: Belafonte. “Can we sp...
    14. 10 I dropped Belafonte off at her car and headed to Viv’s. The place was deserte...
    15. 11 Frisco Dredd sat naked save for a T-shirt and briefs in the tiny room on the ...
    16. 12 Jeremy Ryder’s Key West home sat toward the rear of a long, palm-studded lot ...
    17. 13 Eliot Winkler’s motorized chair buzzed to the bottom of the steps to the back...
    18. 14 The FCLE comprised two floors in Miami’s towering downtown Clark Center. Thou...
    19. 15 A cobalt-blue Towne Car with smoked windows entered the drive of the house be...
    20. 16 The door of the Mailey household opened, Mailey holding the child. Belafonte ...
    21. 17 Roland Uttleman parked at the house behind the Schrum residence and strode th...
    22. 18 Roland Uttleman turned into the parking lot of the Key West Marriott at ten p...
    23. 19 Bass-throbbing dance music filled the Overtown strip bar, deep notes rattling...
    24. 20 Celeste Owsley’s call had come at seven a.m. “Mr Nautilus, can you come...
    25. 21 “Get this fucking thing off my head!” Darlene Hammond screamed. Frisco ...
    26. 22 The plane that came for Nautilus and the Owsleys was a Beech King 350 turbopr...
    27. 23 Judge Hubert Hawkins turned his jowly visage to me. “You can step down, Detec...
    28. 24 Nautilus was in his hotel room sipping a bottle of Edmund Fitzgerald Porter a...
    29. 25 The six-hundred-dollar Ferragamo slings of Sissy Carol Sparks clicked the Mia...
    30. 26 Nautilus had Owsley at the airport by seven and they were in the air ten minu...
    31. 27 Frisco Dredd crouched inside the windowless van and sucked from a bottle of w...
    32. 28 The head was encased in a gray Fiberglass shell, the eyes hidden behind a rec...
    33. 29 Jeremy Ryder continued through the neighborhood for another hour, holding his...
    34. 30 Miami-Dade PD dispatcher Talia Ocales sat in her semicircular workstation sur...
    35. 31 “Can you be ready in twenty minutes, Mr Nautilus?” the voice on the phone sai...
    36. 32 Roland Uttleman stood in the sun-dappled backyard of the Schrum home, cell ph...
    37. 33 Not a minute after Ava mentioned sending the prints to the lab, we were calle...
    38. 34 We pulled into a parking lot of broken asphalt with weeds pushing from cracks...
    39. 35 Nautilus was outside Owsley’s hotel at nine a.m., leaning against the vehicle...
    40. 36 I spent a solo night at Vivian’s, she on her third all-nighter in a row. I co...
    41. 37 “Stoned,” I said, still reeling from Ava’s supposition. We were back at...
    42. 38 I felt diseased after being in an enclosed space with pornographers and neede...
    43. 39 Roland Uttleman was sitting in the deserted kitchen of the Schrum home, bored...
    44. 40 The jezebel had made a mistake, Frisco Dredd thought, sitting in his van on t...
    45. 41 Roland Uttleman sat in the dimly lit kitchen of the Schrum house reading a me...
    46. 42 The next morning took me straight to the DA’s office, a final meeting on the ...
    47. 43 A sudden sizzle of energy had me pacing the room. “Johnson had me hook,...
    48. 44 I called Harry’s cell phone. He answered on the sixth ring. “You don’t usuall...
    49. 45 Frisco Dredd pulled in front of Sissy Sparks’s apartment building. After miss...
    50. 46 “Carson, it’s Vince Delmara. Where you at?” “Heading to the Palace, Vin...
    51. 47 Vince added the Sparks woman’s name and description to the van BOLO and scurr...
    52. 48 Nautilus awoke at eight in the morning and checked his messages. Celeste Owsl...
    53. 49 When awakened I had the energy to head to the Palace, grabbing a shower and c...
    54. 50 Harry Nautilus was revisiting the park in his head when a knock came to the d...
    55. 51 Nautilus sat on the balcony of a Knight’s Inn a half-mile from his previous l...
    56. 52 When I returned to the department, I found Belafonte huddled in conversation ...
    57. 53 Greta was kept in the broken-down motel Nautilus had seen while driving, and ...
    58. 54 Amos Schrum was staring at the floor as if it might rearrange itself into the...
    59. 55 I stared out the window, trying to stay calm and think. We had a blood connec...
    60. 56 Sissy Carol Sparks felt like crying. She hadn’t cried in years and had almost...
    61. 57 The Osceola guys stayed on scene, Harry directing us toward Hallelujah Jubile...
    62. 58 I followed Harry to his vantage point and saw the object in full, illuminated...
    63. 59 “Eliot’s been obsessed,” Vanessa Winkler said, sitting in a conference room b...
    64. 60 It was four in the morning. Since it was a big operation and I’d alerted Roy ...
    65. 61 The pink Adidas cross-trainers of Sissy Carol Sparks padded down the sidewalk...
    66. Acknowledgements Thunderous accolades as always to the splendid folks at HarperC...
    67. If you liked THE APOSTLE, try:...
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    69. About the Author J.A. Ke...
    70. Also by J.A. Kerley ...
    71. About the Publisher ...
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