Publisher's Synopsis
EYES CLOSED ... IS THIS TRUE? Who murdered Huette Montbavin? ... Why? Accepting the offer from Huette's grandfather to meet him in Lo Bello, Nevada, Chapin's search for her murderer begins in and out of the braids of time and place in The Snap ... With Chapin already on his way, Débora leaves him a phone message offering him 'an explanation'? To what? Could this tease refer to the murder of her father? Or could it refer to Chapin and her own son? Why are five cowboys on horseback, brought to life from a painting, on an undeviating mission to kill Chapin before he reaches Lo Bello? Did the painter, Geraldine Silo, send them? Why don't the cowboys want him to discover the truth about Huette? Is that truth related to Snake of Sand and his motive for murdering Dr. Jolope? Does it relate to Snake of Sand's daughter, Songs of Birds, now kept captive by the dead doctor in a furrow between life and death? ... Are there clues in Chapin's murder of a child when he too was a young boy? Or clues with a Roman Catholic priest in The Bronx? What about with Rina, one of the priest's congregants? What about the box of mementos mailed to him; a box including a letter written to him by Tamara Pavone in 1980 or Mariah, a woman he met at a carnival when he was 19? A woman whose leaving caused him such intense pain, it bore the degeneracy running through his unsanctioned killings during World War II. What about his ordered killings for the CIA? Are there clues in the killing of Roydon Whitestone in the Arizona Territory in the late 1870s or in the kidnapping and murder of a young man in Arles in 1951? How about the two murders he commits in two states on the same night in 1971? Why is the block of platinum from Leslie Saight's game house now on Level 109 and why does it kill every boy who walks inside it? Why are the four dead girls an ongoing reverberation and why is his involvement in their murders nebulous in his mind? Why are Huette's grandfather and his aide, Winfield Rorey, a captain in the Union Army, unconcerned about Huette's biological father's involvement in the solution to her murder, though Chapin is clear in a connection? ... In The Snap ... Courses.