in San Diego and Marty Taylor was sitting on the deck of his sailboat trying to hack into a bank’s computer. He had spent most of the day on the boat. He had wasted the morning cleaning things that didn’t need to be cleaned and shining things that didn’t need to be shined, and then spent the afternoon trying to figure out how to get the money he needed to escape from Yuri. He had decided the best thing for him to do was simply disappear. If he stayed where he was, Yuri was going to bleed him dry and he’d most likely be implicated in Yuri’s crimes. And although Yuri had said he’d kill Marty’s family, he’d only do that if Marty did something to put Yuri in jail. But if Marty just walked away from everything—from the company, his family, and the cops— Yuri would have no reason to go after his family. And to make sure of this, he would send Yuri a note before he left telling him that if anything happened to the people he loved, he’d come back and do whatever was necessary to put Yuri behind bars.
