Leathan Wilkey left London in a hurry when he upset a people smuggling gang.
Rather than go somewhere secluded and be an obvious outsider, Leathan headed for a dense, busy city—Paris—where he could hide out as a needle in a huge stack of needles.
To maintain anonymity, Leathan needs to live without anything that would make him traceable. In other words, he needs to dispense with many of those day to day details that we take for granted: credit cards and a bank account, a known phone number, and a permanent place to live.
Leathan exists through a network where he trades favors—he doesn’t work for money; he works in a system that is little more than primitive bartering, relying on trust and instinct. The first job he takes in Paris is babysitting a willful seventeen-year-old, Clementina.
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Clementina
Leathan Wilkey has been hired to babysit Clementina, a seventeen-year-old whose rich daddy is going through a messy divorce and is over-compensating.
Leathan soon tires of her spending habits, her selfie obsession, and her social media preoccupation as his ward drags him from shop to boutique to jeweler, approaching each with the self-possession that comes from a lifetime of getting her own way and never once having to worry about money.
But when Clementina snaps her fingers and her boyfriend doesn’t come running, something is up. He doesn’t appear because he’s been murdered.
When Leathan investigates, he finds that the boyfriend has no background and met Clementina through a connection made by daddy’s business partner.
Daddy’s business partner who has been slowly and progressively putting daddy in a vice, grabbing more of the business, and who is now menacing Clementina directly to manipulate daddy.
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Diplomatic Baggage
Leathan Wilkey has been hired by a diplomat to find a nineteen-year-old.
“He’s the son of a friend—I’m doing a favor,” says the diplomat, who gives Leathan the teenager’s name and a photo and tells him where the kid usually hangs out.
Leathan finds the teenager within the day. When he reaches him, the kid has just been shot. His dying words to Leathan are: “Protect Marianne.”
Leathan is left to find Marianne, find out why she needs protecting and from whom, all the while puzzling at what the diplomat didn’t tell him.
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The Camera
At first, Leathan Wilkey thinks he led the killer to Anaïs.
Leathan had been looking for the owner of a camera that was left in Anaïs’ café. It was a small favor for her—a favor that seems to have led trouble from his past to his friend.
But as he follows the few details about her death of which he is certain, Leathan realizes that the murder wasn’t connected to him, and the search for the camera’s owner wasn’t a favor for Anaïs. When he was looking for the owner of the lost camera, he was, in fact, creating a distraction. And now that Anaïs is dead, Leathan doesn’t understand why he was duped into creating this distraction.
Leathan needs to find the person who wanted him to create a diversion. Maybe this person knows who killed Anaïs—and why.
Maybe.
All Leathan knows for sure is that he will remain tormented until he brings about some sort of justice for Anaïs.
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Bag Man
Leathan Wilkey has been hired to make a ransom exchange.
He has the cash, a car, and a phone so the kidnappers can direct him to the location of the exchange for the seven-year-old boy. But it soon becomes clear that there are two groups demanding the ransom, and they can’t both have the kid.
And when Leathan finds the cash that he’s been given might not be what the kidnappers are expecting, he questions whether he’s the bag man or if he’s been sent to draw fire.
Bullets fly and Leathan ducks. When he looks up, he’s the only one who’s concerned that a stray piece of lead might hit the kid.
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