JM02 - Death's Little Helpers aka No Way Home
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“They’re calling my flight again. I’m sorry.”
I drank my orange juice and looked at my watch and played the message through twice more. It was hours since she’d left it, hours since her plane had pulled back from the gate and sped down the tarmac and climbed into the air, hours since it had wheeled above Jamaica Bay and found its heading and dwindled over some horizon. I looked out the window and up at the sky. I don’t know what I expected to see, so many hours later, besides impossible blue and spun-sugar clouds and no sign at all of her passage.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Spiegelman is a veteran of more than twenty years in the financial services and software industries, and has worked with leading financial institutions in major markets around the globe. Mr. Spiegelman is the author of Black Maps, which won the 2004 Shamus Award for Best First Novel. He lives Connecticut.
ALSO BY PETER SPIEGELMAN
Black Maps
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright Å 2005 by Peter Spiegelman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spiegelman, Peter.
Death’s little helpers by Peter Spiegelman.p>
p. cm.
eISBN 1-4000-4493-6
1. Private investigators— New York (State)— New York— Fiction.
2. Television personalities— Fiction. 3. Investment advisors—
Fiction. 4. New York (N.Y.)— Fiction. 5. Missing persons— Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3619.P543D43 2005
813’.6— dc22 2004061541
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