Chapter 13: Garrett Lyle Turns Up Dead

The call came at 6:14 in the morning, which was how Daniel knew it was not ordinary news.

Marsh did not use a name. He said only that the arrangement Daniel had been anticipating for the following Thursday would need to be reconsidered, and that reconsidered was the wrong word, and that there were no other words available, and that Daniel should not attempt to reach the relevant party through any channel. He said this in the same tone one might use to describe a cancelled appointment, and then he ended the call before Daniel could respond, and Daniel sat for a moment in the gray pre-dawn light of his apartment with the burner in his hand and understood that Garrett Lyle was dead.

He set the phone down on the kitchen table.