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Scout’s Honor: Chapter 29
A Shattered Lens “You’re killing me. You’re absolutely killing me,” Stan Diamond said, clutching his chest, feigning an operatic death. “No groundbreaking ceremony?...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 28
Billy Cutter Billy Cutter wore an Armani silk suit tailored to accentuate his deep chest and broad back while concealing his soft stomach....
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 27
Vive La France The windowless room was long and narrow, its walnut paneling and group of foxhunting prints suggesting a men’s club rather...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 26
The Job “Where was I?” Parson asked Austen. He’d lost his thread to a passing skirt. He popped his French cuffs, smoothed his...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 25
The House that Crime Built The duffel bags lay undisturbed in the abandoned bomb shelter, but seeping moisture had rotted their canvas. He’d...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 24
Jonnie Austen had been wandering the streets for hours, muttering and gesturing, and was fumbling for change in a phone booth, oblivious of...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 23
White Christmas With its new paint and freshly cleaned windows, the midblock apartment building stood apart from its dowager neighbors. Austen had been...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 22
Banking Hopes “Maybe Irving Trust,” said the bored loan officer, casually doodling on a yellow notepad. The young banker sat behind a shoddy...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 21
No Tengo Nada “You say, no tengo nada. I ain’t got nothing. Got it?” Roy Cross blew perfect smoke rings toward the low...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 20
Rosy Fingered Dawn The Annamese mountains were blackening in the dusk, the range’s jagged peaks backlit by the fading sun. The day’s steamy,...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 19
Poker The sun flickered behind gray clouds billowing across the winter sky. Gulls swirled above Camp Pendleton in search of scraps. Two hundred...
Scout’s Honor: Chapter 18
Where the difference began Nestled between the mouths of the Broad and Beaufort Rivers in South Carolina, Parris Island is a sand spit...