No trail was ever this cold. For clues Dagny has a blue Dodge van, a belt buckle, and a parting taunt: "You've been done by every Tom, Dick, and Harry."

Dagny stubbornly parleys the clues into leads and the leads into finds that take her from a senile old woman's home in New Jersey, to an underground cistern in Istanbul, to an organ transplant clinic in Los Angeles.

Ashley pays Dagny as promised with a bonus and a terse "Goodbye, Dagny." But that's only the beginning, for Ashley is bent on lurid retribution.

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