Silver

by Brian January

  Telling him it was time to let her rest in peace and start living again before it was too late.

  “I don’t know,” he said. “Sometimes it’s not easy being alive. Being left.”

  “It’s all we’ve got.”

  Getting to her feet, she brushed the sand off her clothes and said, “I’ll see you in a few days.”

  She moved off, leaving him alone.

  For a while he sat there, letting random thoughts slowly trickle through his consciousness, watching the low waves curl and crumple along the tide line in their eternal rhythm.

  Then he pulled out his Stealth and dialed Flinders’ number.

  Table of Contents

  A NOVEL BY BRIAN JANUARY

  BOOK ONE

  ONE

  TWO

  THREE

  FOUR

  FIVE

  SIX

  SEVEN

  EIGHT

  NINE

  BOOK TWO

  TEN

  ELEVEN

  TWELVE

  THIRTEEN

  FOURTEEN

  FIFTEEN

  SIXTEEN

  SEVENTEEN

  EIGHTEEN

  NINETEEN

  TWENTY

  TWENTY-ONE

  TWENTY-TWO

  TWENTY-THREE

  TWENTY-FOUR

  TWENTY-FIVE

  TWENTY-SIX

  BOOK THREE

  TWENTY-SEVEN

  TWENTY-EIGHT

  TWENTY-NINE

  THIRTY

  THIRTY-ONE

  THIRTY-TWO

  THIRTY-THREE

  EPILOGUE

  THIRTY-FOUR