contents prologue chapter one : seagulls chapter two : the widow chapter three : the party chapter four : leonardo chapter five : vinny chapter six : the girlfriend chapter seven : the case chapter eight : loose ends chapter nine : loose lips chapter ten : the ranch chapter eleven : the club chapter twelve : road trip to hell chapter thirteen : doin the triad two-step chapter fourteen : judgment day chapter fifteen : see no evil chapter sixteen : back to la-la land chapter seventeen : bloodhounds chapter eighteen : tinseltown chapter nineteen : love bites chapter twenty : operation all in chapter twenty-one : red riding hood chapter twenty-two : underdog chapter twenty-three : meet the press chapter twenty-four : invisible chapter twenty-five : linchpin chapter twenty-six : pay it forward chapter twenty-seven : the policeman only rings once chapter twenty-eight : dueling hard drives chapter twenty-nine : cop killer chapter thirty : the invisible woman returns chapter thirty-one : claus chapter thirty-two : fools gold chapter thirty-three : squeeze play chapter thirty-four : special delivery chapter thirty-five : all points bulletin chapter thirty-six : mad as hell chapter thirty-seven : slim is better than none chapter thirty-eight : back door man chapter thirty-nine : gangrene chapter forty : love stinks chapter forty-one : all roads lead to rome chapter forty-two : top of the world chapter forty-three : cut and print it chapter forty-four : the fat lady sings chapter forty-five : montezumas revenge epilogue note from the author preview book two about the author other titles from jack thompson contact jack prologue a forty-foot cruiser floated idly next to the dock at the alamitos bay yacht club , just north of seal beach on the southern california coast .