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Our thanks to those who shared their tie Kevin Rathburn of Saue; Attorney Steven Rabinowitz, Pryor Cashman, New York City, for his wise counsel: and Captain Richard Conklin, BCI coratitude to the ho researcher, Ingrid Taylar, West Coast, USA

THE ONE WHO KNOWS THE SECRETS IS THE ONE WHO HOLDS THE POWER CAN NYPD RED FIND THE TRUTH BEFORE A CITY EXPLODES?

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THERE WERE ONLY four words beneath the tattoo of the Grih But they spoke volumes

Death is my aphrodisiac

And nowhere in the entire city was her libido more on point than at the Renwick S three-story, U-shaped monster on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island

Once astone carcass, the final way station for thirteen thousand men, women, and children who had died a painful death

For the city fathers, Renas a historical landmark For the urban explorers, it was New York’s most haunted house But for Aubrey Davenport, it was a sexual Mecca, and on a war partner scaled the eight-foot fence,labyrinth, and spread a thick quilted blanket on the rocky floor

She kicked off her shoes, removed her shirt and bra, shucked her jeans, and stood there, naked except for a pair of aquamarine bikini panties

Her nipples responded to the caress of a cool breeze that drifted over her breasts, and she inhaled the earthy scent of the decay around her, mixed with the dank overtones of river water

She dropped to her knees on the blanket, closed her eyes, and waited for her partner

She shuddered as he silently slipped the noose around her neck His fingers were long and slender Piano player fingers, her mother used to call them Like your father has

As a child, Aubrey wondered why a man blessed with the hands of a concert pianist never played an instru the way she caers made music of another kind: the crescendo of sound that cahtly basis

Aubrey felt the rope pull tighter Rope was astrand of silk—the belt from a robe, perhaps—and it felt soft and sainst her carotid arteries

He took her shoulders and guided her body to the ground until her belly was flat against the cotton blanket below her