HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019 Copyright © Greg Iles 2019 Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019 Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com Greg Iles asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This is entirely a work of fiction. Any references to real people, living or dead, real events, businesses, organizations and localities are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. All names, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books Ebook Edition © MARCH 2019 © ISBN: 9780008270148 Version: 2019-02-14 To all those adults who return home to repay the debt of childhood, and find they never really left. Listen while you still can.
A secret is not something untold.
It’s something which can’t be told.
—Terence McKenna Contents
