eBook Description: Clinton Brown isn't such a bad guy. He's a typical intelligent, handsome, divorced man. Well, there is his ex-wife who won't leave him the hell alone, but besides that he leads a pretty normal life. Except he's missing something. He is so desperate to recover it that he may have been driven to murder. He's trying to get himself charged with murder, but did he do it or didn't he? Why is he trying so hard to make it look as if he did? What sent Clinton over the edge?
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