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Authors: Michael Robotham

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“My sins have been confessed.”

“But they haven’t been forgiven.”

Ruiz leaves, walking up the slope towards the house, the turf soft beneath his worn leather shoes. Beneath the canopy of a fig tree he notices a rope swing dangling from a lower branch and can picture Elizabeth as a young girl, her hair flying, pushing herself from the shadows into the sunshine.

Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairytale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From richest to poorest, we start and end with family.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Wreckage
is based on many real-life events and documents but the characters are entirely fictitious. I am indebted to many fine journalists and authors who have written about the global financial crisis and about Iraq. I have drawn upon their experiences and wisdom to hopeful y create fiction that reads like the truth.

As always, I wish to thank my agents Mark Lucas, Richard Pine, Nicki Kennedy and Sam Edenborough, as wel as my editors David Shel ey and John Schoenfelder.

For their hospitality, friendship and advice I thank Mark and Sara Derry, Martyn Forrester, Peter Temple, Jonathan Margolis and Scott Dalton.

Last, but by no means least, I am indebted as always to my beloved wife Vivien, who has suffered more than usual during the birth of this particular baby. My daughters have also endured my mercurial mood swings and many absences. One day I’l make it up to them.

I love you guys.

Contents

FRONT COVER IMAGE

WELCOME

DEDICATION
BOOK ONE
1: BAGHDAD

2: LONDON

3: LONDON

4: BAGHDAD

5: LONDON

6: LONDON

7: BAGHDAD

8: LONDON

9: LONDON

10: BAGHDAD

11: LONDON

12: LONDON

13: BAGHDAD

14: LONDON

15: LONDON

16: LONDON

17: BAGHDAD

18: LONDON

19: BAGHDAD

20: LONDON

21: BAGHDAD

22: LONDON

23: BAGHDAD

24: LONDON

25: BAGHDAD

BOOK TWO
1: LONDON

2: LONDON

3: LONDON

4: LONDON

5: LONDON

6: LONDON

7: LONDON

8: BAGHDAD

9: LONDON

10: LONDON

11: LONDON

12: WASHINGTON

13: LONDON

14: BAGHDAD

15: LONDON

16: LONDON

17: BAGHDAD

18: LONDON

19: LONDON

20: LONDON

21: LONDON

22: WASHINGTON

23: LONDON

24: LONDON

25: LUTON

26: BAGHDAD

27: LONDON

28: LONDON

BOOK THREE
1: LONDON

2: ISTANBUL

3: LONDON

4: WASHINGTON

5: LONDON

6: LUTON

7: LONDON

8: LONDON

9: LONDON

10: LUTON

11: LONDON

12: LONDON

13: NEW YORK

14: LONDON

15: LONDON

16: LONDON

17: LONDON

18: LONDON

19: LONDON

20: LONDON

21: LONDON

22: LONDON

23: LONDON

24: LUTON

25: LONDON

26: LUTON

27: LONDON

28: LONDON

29: LONDON

30: LONDON

31: LONDON

32: LONDON

33: LONDON

34: LONDON

35: LUTON

36: LONDON

37: LONDON

38: LONDON

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY MICHAEL ROBOTHAM

COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Before writing ful -time, Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist in Britain, Australia and the US. He is the pseudonymous author of ten best-sel ing non-fiction titles, involving prominent figures in the military, the arts, sport and science. He lives in Sydney with his wife and three daughters.

Also by Michael Robotham

The Suspect

The Drowning Man
(aka
Lost
)

The Night Ferry

Shatter

Bombproof

Bleed for Me

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 by Michael Robotham

Al rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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