Prologue Summary

Blondell Wayne Tatum, also known as Chemo, is serving three concurrent seventeen-year sentences for the murders of Dr. Rudy Graveline, Chloe Simpkins Stranahan, and Dr. Gunther Macleish.

Maggie Orestes Gonzalez is working as a volunteer nurse, serving one hundred hours of community service at the Dade County Stockade when she is killed in a food-related riot.

Kipper Garth never recovers from his pelota injuries and sells his practice.

Willie Velasquez gets his own news-documentary program on Fox Television as a result of the dramatic videotaped footage of the cosmetic surgery of the now presumed dead Reynaldo Flemm. He offers the position of producer to Christina Marks but she takes a job with the Miami Herald, purchases a second-hand Boston Whaler and a nautical chart of South Biscayne Bay.

The parents of Victoria Barletta receive a letter and a suitcase with over one hundred...