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Gunfire strikes close by, forcing constant movement while the February air and riverfront dangers heighten the stakes. The protagonist reflects on a life shaped by violence, anticipating a brutal end and weighing what “kindest” death means in a world where betrayal and harm escalate without pause.","ALSO BY ROB HART The Medusa Protocol Assassins Anonymous The Paradox Hotel The Warehouse  \nTake-Out: And Other Tales of Culinary Crime  \nTHE ASH MCKENNA SERIES Potter ’s Field (Book 5)  \nThe Woman from Prague (Book 4) South Village (Book 3)  \nCity of Rose (Book 2)  \nNew Yorked (Book 1)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nG. P. PUTNAM’S SONS  \nPublishers Since 1838  \nAn imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019  \n[penguinrandomhouse.com](penguinrandomhouse.com)  \nCopyright © 2026 by Rob Hart  \nPenguin Random House values and supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random House to continue to publish books for every reader. Please note that no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence  \ntechnologies or systems.  \nCover design and illustration: Tal Goretsky  \nCover images: (yellow sign) AJT / iStock / Getty Images Plus; (knife) Edgar G Biehle / Shutterstock  \nHardcover ISBN 9798217177134  \nEbook ISBN 9798217177158  \nThe authorized representative in the EU for product safety and compliance is Penguin Random House Ireland, Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street, Dublin D02 YH68, Ireland, [https://eu](https://eu)  \n[contact.penguin.ie](contact.penguin.ie).  \nep_prh_ 7.3a_ 156356095_c0_r0  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nDedication  \nEpigraph  \nChapter 1  \nOne Week Ago: Tuesday  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nWednesday  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nThursday  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nFriday  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nTuesday  \nChapter 32  \nAcknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Shawn  \nWe’ve come a long way from that bar in D.C.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nForgiveness is the fragrance that the violet shedson the heel that crushed it.  \n—ATTRIBUTED TO MARK TWAIN, PROBABLY INCORRECTLY  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMARK  \nFinancial District  \nA bullet slams into the façade of the building next to me, narrowly  \nmissing my head. It spits out a hail of dust and stone fragments. I skip to the side and nearly stumble trying to avoid it, but still manage tosuck some of it into my lungs as I regain my footing.  \nRunning, not for my life, but for the lives of everyone I know.  \nWall Street is a ghost town at three in the morning, the sidewalks clear and the shutters drawn. Bullshit, this city never sleeps. It’s so quiet it feels like it’s been roofied. Still, we’re in the heart of the city’s surveillance network.  \nThe sheer edge of Manhattan looms in the distance: South Street, running along the shoreline and underneath the FDR Drive. The East Riversurges and swells just beyond that, frigid and dark. I’m close enough I can smell the brackish mix of salt and trash.  \nWith the way the February air is slicing my exposed skin, that water isnot going to feel good. But two more gunshots whiz over my head, so it’sthe safest bet. I pump my legs harder, coughing the dust from my lungs.  \nThis is it then.  \nWhen you’ve lived the kind of life I have, you wonder what it’s going to look like at the end. People like me don’t tend to pass quietly in our sleep. The best we can hope for is a bullet to the head, because at least that’s quick.  \nTo me, a bullet was always the kindest death I could grant someone. Knife wounds take time to bleed out. They hurt. 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