Wild Card

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Stone Barrington and Jamie Cox had spent an idyllic month at Stone’s estate, Windward Hall, in the south of England, on the banks of the Beaulieu River (pronounced Bewley, if you’re British). The weather had been surprisingly un-English, with only occasional showers. They woke early each morning, made love, and then, after breakfast, took horses from the stables and galloped across Stone’s acreage.

After that, Jamie went to work on her book, based on her New York Times story, in which she and her team had investigated a family-owned investment bank called H. Thomas & Son, exposing deep roots of organized crime going back generations. They had also investigated hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal wire transfers, money stolen from the international banking community by the Thomases. She was nearing the end of her final draft of the book.

Then, in the late afternoon, Stone’s friend Dino Bacchetti telephoned, and everything went to hell.

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