More interesting. Story has moved to Ben Kipling, money launderer. Threat of violence to Kipling. Author also does a good job describing the hard-to-get-your head around massiveness of the new wealth. Class distinctions between regular rich people and unimaginably rich people and regular people. Our survivor, Scott the Painter, is now staying with another fantastically wealthy person--Layla. Art lover, she can make his career . . . but he is standoffish about her power. Still a bit shell-shocked, though this is one of the least convincing aspects of the book.
Weakest. Tommy is in prison. His son, Ryan, is now 17. Catherine the cop's sister, Clare, takes Ryan to visit Tommy in prison, without telling Catherine. Not good. Sisters have a break when Catherine finds out. Plot two: PE teacher, abusive to wife. She is getting drugs from local Indian/Pakistani pharmacist. Husband finds out and has wife arrested! Pharmacist worried . . . plots to kill husband. Wife agrees, then changes her mind. Pharmacist in a rage kills her. (All a bit of a stretch, as he is a mild mannered family man.) Tommy escapes from his court hearing, hides out, gets in touch with Ryan. Plan is to go to Marabella, Spain together. Tommy's "helpers" get worried about Tommy and decide to do him in. Instead, he kills them . . . and is knifed himself. He returns to Catherine's house, looks through a photo album showing Catherine took good care of Ryan, and decides not to kill her....
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