What was your game? On the surface, everything looked plain vanilla. If he discounted the interviews with the Coast Guard sailors, the case would be straightforward: man camping on an island sees a lone woman, overpowers her, drags her back to his camp—he’d unfortunately worked a few cases exactly like that. But there were too many people who all agreed that she had not been alone on the beach . . . true, she’d been a good distance from Cortez and Anthony, but no one would attempt a kidnapping in front of two other law enforcement officers no more than a couple hundred feet from him, and more coming from the water. Taking her hostage or shooting her outright because of some deranged impulse—he could see that. But it didn’t work for a kidnapping. If it was planned, how would their suspect have known she’d be coming to the beach? It made even less sense for a snatch-and-grab—who would wait on a deserted island for someone to come along?