Mick Hawk awakens in an alley covered with blood from a head wound, with no memories other than his first name. According to Shorty, the homeless man who found him, he was holding a battered driver's license, so they go in search of the owner with no luck.<br><br>Then a man approaches them on the street. His name is Richard Wolfe, and he claims he and Mick are lovers. After Richard convinces Mick he's telling the truth, the three men set out to discover who wants Mick dead and why. A difficult task, as Mick has yet to regain his memory.<br><br>One suspect is Mick's older brother, Trenton, who manages one of Mick's clubs and resents the fact their father gave them to Mick instead of him. Another is the man on the driver's license, who works for Trenton. Or ...? All they have to do is figure it out, before someone tries again to take Mick out of the picture permanently.

Hawk and Wolfe

They got home by eight-forty-five, and spent several minutes trying to decide where Mick could conceal one of the phones so that Celeste wouldn’t know he was carrying it. At first they considered taping it into his crotch, in case she had the gall to pat him down. When they tested it, they quickly discovered that wouldn’t work because anything they said was so muffled it was barely intelligible.


“Won’t that be the case no matter where you carry it?” Shorty asked.


It turned out it was, to one degree or another, until they hit on the idea of putting it in the lining of his jacket’s sleeve. That meant calling Richard’s phone, and leaving them on, before stitching the slit closed. As Mick pointed out when Shorty worried about them dying, “They’ve got brand new batteries. That shouldn’t happen in the next couple of hours.”


Chapter 36