CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
At Mackenzie’s instruction, no one was allowed to leave the cruise ship. As a result, she saw hundreds of people milling around the decks as she parked her car in the cruise line’s luggage and equipment lot alongside the ship’s docking platform. Two patrol cars from the Miami PD rolled into the lot behind her. They were not running their sirens or flashers, not wanting to further alarm the passengers. As far as Mackenzie knew, none of the passengers had been informed of why the cruise had been turned back to shore just a few hours after heading out to sea.
Mackenzie walked toward the ship entrance she had been instructed to. There, a man with a rather rotund belly hanging over the waist of his jeans stood waiting for her. When he saw Mackenzie and Ellington headed their
