Chapters 8-11 Summary

Spenser and Candy meet up again. Spenser tells Candy what happened and then promises to show her how to use a gun, believing it might be helpful later. Then Spenser and Candy go to the offices of an agent Candy used to know. Candy convinces the agent that this investigation could make her career for her. Reluctantly the agent tells Candy and Spenser that Hammond got the studio into financial trouble five years ago, and a West Coast Mob family bailed him out before his bosses at the parent company, Oceania Limited, could find out. Candy wonders aloud why the mob would do this and Spenser tells her that they did it because now they now control Hammond.

That night Spenser escorts Candy to dinner. They talk about the case and Candy suggests that her next move should be to talk...