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Chapters 1, 2 and 3

• Trahearne's ex-wife has hired Sughrue to find him.

• Sughrue finds Trahearne at a bar in California.
• An argument at the bar ensues, in which Trahearne gets shot.

• Rosie, the bar's owner, and Sughrue concoct a story for the police.
• Rosie hires Sughrue to find her missing daughter, Betty Sue.

• Sughrue believes Betty Sue to be dead.
• Sughrue visits Trahearne in the hospital.

Chapters 4, 5 and 6

• Sughrue visits Charles Gleeson, Betty Sue's former drama teacher.

• Gleeson tells Sughrue he saw Betty Sue in a porn movie in San Francisco..
• Sughrue recalls the torture experience in Vietnam and relates it to his discharge.
• Sughrue visits Albert Griffith, the young man Betty Sue was with on the night she disappeared.

• Griffith confesses he still loves Betty Sue.
• Sughrue contemplates his "mean streak."

• Sughrue and Trahearne go to San Francisco together.

Chapters 7 and 8

• Professor Richter shows Sughrue the porn film with...

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