He walked the ten or twelve feet next door and could see that the garage windows were fogged over. When he found a clear spot to look inside, he saw Leo Garcia sitting as still as death behind the steering wheel of his car. He knew instantly that Leo hadn’t died of a stroke or heart attack; he had died the way he’d once told Marv Milo he’d chosen.

By his own hand. With the help of carbon monoxide. His skin was the characteristic bright cherry red that appears when carbon monoxide shuts off oxygen in the blood.

Some might say that Carl Milton Garcia’s death was a prime example...