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Mr. Clarinet

A Novel

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by Nick Stone
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A disgraced former Miami cop takes a suicide mission to track down a missing child in Haiti in this Silver Dagger Award–winning thriller series debut.
There was nothing waiting for ex-cop Max Mingus when he walked out of Attica Prison after doing hard time for murder. Now Miami's one-time top detective is haunted by an empty house, bad memories . . . and an impossible job offer for obscenely good money.
Three years ago, Charlie Carver, the five-year-old son of a powerful Haitian billionaire, vanished. His father is offering Max $15 million to bring the boy back—or at least find his body and deliver his abductors. Max has every reason to turn the case down: there's no way the boy is still alive, and the last three detectives to take the job are dead.
But with nothing left to lose, Max plunges headfirst into Haiti—a steaming island hotbed of crime, greed, voodoo, and corruption—to find the boy. His investigation stirs up a murky evil that can swallow a man whole . . . and leads Mingus to the soul-destroying truth about a terrifying local myth, a child-stealing nightmare called "Mr. Clarinet."

  • Creators

  • Series

    Max Mingus

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  • Awards

  • Release date

    January 17, 2024

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9780061844430

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      • ISBN: 9780061844430
      • File size: 1216 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 23, 2007
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      tone’s adrenaline-packed debut is not for the faint of heart. Max Mingus, an ex-Miami cop and PI, wants to get his life back on track after a seven-year stint in Attica for the execution of three child molesters. Grudgingly agreeing to investigate the disappearance of Charlie Carver, the three-year-old son of a wealthy white Haitian family, Max finds himself thrown headfirst into the violent, corrupt world of Haiti in the mid-1990s. Max’s search leads him from the sprawling Carver compound to Cité Soleil, the country’s most notorious slum, pitting him against powerful drug baron Vincent Paul and the bloody legacy of the Carvers’ rise to power. Stone veers too often into the explicitly graphic, with numerous extended torture scenes, but readers accustomed to the grittiest of pulp fiction won’t be deterred. Stone, the son of British historian Norman Stone and a Haitian mother, vividly depicts a country and a man in turmoil. Despite an overabundance of plot elements, this thriller introduces a fresh voice that fans of hardboiled fiction won’t want to miss.

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