There was nothing waiting for ex-cop Max Mingus when he walked out of Attica Prison after serving hard time for murder--his adored wife died in a car crash while he was locked up. Now Miami's one-time top detective is haunted by an empty house, bad memories . . . and an impossible job offer for obscenely good money. Three years ago, Charlie Carver, the five-year-old son of a powerful Haitian billionaire, vanished. His father is offering Max $15 million to bring the boy back--or, at the very least, to find his body and deliver his abductors.
Max knows he should turn this case down....
There was nothing waiting for ex-cop Max Mingus when he walked out of Attica Prison after serving hard time for murder--his adored wife died in a c...
"One of the brightest new stars in the thriller genre." --Chicago Sun-Times Nick Stone's first novel, Mr. Clarinet, took the crime fiction world by storm--winning enthusiastic raves ("Exquisite" --South Florida Sun-Sentinel; "A spellbinding thriller of the highest order" --Chicago Tribune) as well as a Macavity and a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. In The King of Swords, Stone brings back Detective Max Mingus in a chilling and mesmerizing "prequel" that combines murder, police corruption, and voodoo black magic....
"One of the brightest new stars in the thriller genre." --Chicago Sun-Times Nick Stone's first novel, Mr. Clarinet, ...
THE JOB; find a rich man's kidnapped son in Haiti. THE REWARD: $10 million to bring the boy back alive. THE MAN: Max Mingus, ex cop, ex-PI and now ex-con. THE STAKES: his predecessors haven't just failed, they're been destroyed...Max Mingus knows the price of a bad risk, but he takes the Haiti job because no one else will. A lawless of voodoo and black magic where each man must face his personal demons, Haiti is also home to a monster they call Mr Clarinet - infamous for spiriting countless children away from their families. In searching for the boy - alive or dead - Max has only his life to...
THE JOB; find a rich man's kidnapped son in Haiti. THE REWARD: $10 million to bring the boy back alive. THE MAN: Max Mingus, ex cop, ex-PI and now ex-...
