Mr. Clarinet

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."