Summary

Chapter 7 (1998) – Harrington and Dolan visit the morgue in Port au Prince, where they discover that the coroner conducted only the most basic examination of Jackie’s body, responding to the pressures and manipulations of police authorities who were, in turn, being manipulated by the American Government, who arranged for Jackie’s body to be immediately flown back to the United States on a government plane. Later, Dolan drops Harrington off at the American Embassy, where Harrington learns that Jackie was the daughter of an important American politician; that her husband (Jack Parmentier) was a crook working with Dolan; that American Justice Department wants to put Parmentier behind bars; and that the Department believes that whatever happened “up north” with Jackie and Harrington has nothing to do with the killing. Harrington then makes an effort to get out of Haiti, but finds...