The Goodbye Man. Jeffery Deaver

      

       Also by Jeffery Deaver

       NOVELS

       The Colter Shaw Series

      The Never Game

       The Lincoln Rhyme Series

      The Cutting Edge

      The Burial Hour

      The Steel Kiss

      The Skin Collector

      The Kill Room

      The Burning Wire

      The Broken Window

      The Cold Moon

      The Twelfth Card

      The Vanished Man

      The Stone Monkey

      The Empty Chair

      The Coffin Dancer

      The Bone Collector

       The Kathryn Dance Series

      Solitude Creek

      XO

      Roadside Crosses

      The Sleeping Doll

       The Rune Series

      Hard News

      Death of a Blue Movie Star

      Manhattan Is My Beat

       The John Pellam Series

      Hell’s Kitchen

      Bloody River Blues

      Shallow Graves

       Stand-Alones

      The October List

      No Rest for the Dead (Contributor)

      Carte Blanche (A James Bond Novel)

      Watchlist (Contributor)

      Edge

      The Bodies Left Behind

      Garden of Beasts

      The Blue Nowhere

      Speaking in Tongues

      The Devil’s Teardrop

      A Maiden’s Grave

      Praying for Sleep

      The Lesson of Her Death

      Mistress of Justice

       SHORT FICTION

       Collections

      Ice Cold (Editor)

      A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime (Editor)

      Trouble in Mind

      Triple Threat

      Books to Die For (Contributor)

      The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Editor)

      More Twisted

      Twisted

       Individual Stories

      Buried

      The Second Hostage

      Verona

      The Debriefing

      Ninth and Nowhere

      Captivated

      The Victims’ Club

      Surprise Ending

      Double Cross

      The Deliveryman

      A Textbook Case

      THE GOODBYE MAN

      Jeffery Deaver

       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2020

      First published in the US in 2020 by Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

      Copyright © Gunner Publications, LLC 2020

      Cover design by [INSERT] © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2020

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      Jeffery Deaver asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008303785

      Ebook Edition © May 2020 ISBN: 9780008303808

      Version: 2020-04-22

       Dedication

       For Jane Davis, with boundless gratitude

       Epigraph

      What a journey I have made, the things I have seen … Give me a jug of water and human flesh. Give me air to breathe and a strong sailing wind when I rise from the underworld.

      BOOK OF THE DEAD, EGYPTIAN FUNERARY TEXT

      Contents

       Cover

      Also by Jeffery Deaver

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      One: The Man on the Cliff

Chapter 1. June 11, 2 p.m.

Chapter 2. June 11, 8 a.m., six hours earlier