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BOOK I — MERCER DABB

Point of view: MERCER DABB

  1. 01The Half-Point Toward Mercy
  2. 02Closing Line Value
  3. 03A Tremor in the Line
  4. 04The Float Has Weight
  5. 05Daddy
  6. 06...Heard Wrong
  7. 07Clean Exit

BOOK II — SANCHA REYES-OKAFOR

Point of view: SANCHA REYES-OKAFOR

  1. 08The Charging Decision
  2. 09Queen for a Day
  3. 10The Name She Can Type or Not
  4. 11Hold the Wire
  5. 12The Truncation
  6. 13Sunday Morning, a Phone Still Lit
  7. 14The Half She'll Never Have

BOOK III — TULLY BOYD

Point of view: TULLY BOYD

  1. 15Good Ear to the Door
  2. 16A Man Already Running
  3. 17The Long Way Down the Corridor
  4. 18The Room with the Wall on His Left
  5. 19The Approach
  6. 20He Just Heard Wrong
  7. 21The Deck, the Dark, the Mercy He Can't Hear

BOOK IV — REAGAN HALF

Point of view: REAGAN HALF

  1. 22The Back Room, After
  2. 23The Sound She Cleans Up
  3. 24Dell in My Back Room
  4. 25The Name That Won't Come Off
  5. 26The Till and the Back-Room Money
  6. 27His Side of the Bed
  7. 28Before Any of It
  8. 29You Will Not Remember Which Version Was True
  9. 30The OPEN Sign Over an Empty Room

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