Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen

Author:Jeff Jensen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: YA Children's & Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781484711606
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2015-04-06T23:00:00+00:00

THE SUICIDE doors of Duquesne’s vehicle swung open and Rotwang stepped out, pulling his fedora down low over his eyes. Duquesne’s men from the other car immediately surrounded him. He didn’t know what Plus Ultra would do if they found him at their little coming out party, but he could imagine it would not end in success. He had to stay hidden.

There were eight of them headed into the lobby: Hagen, himself, and six of Duquesne’s agents, all young men and all disguised as a film crew laden with duffel bags and recording equipment. Duquesne and his “wife” had arrived at the hotel before them to make sure their path was clear of obstacles. Through the tall shoulders and the bags surrounding him, Rotwang glimpsed the woman at the front desk, chatting with a few men. One of them was a Faustus robot dressed as a bellhop. Rotwang suppressed a laugh. He spied Duquesne in the smoking lounge drinking brown liquor and carrying on his typical animated conversation with a man and a woman. Between them, the mole and the moll had all the human variables in the lobby engaged and distracted.

Just before their little faux film crew reached the elevator, a stout hotel clerk approached. “Can I be of any help to you gentlemen?”

One of Duquesne’s men, Carver, stepped forward. He wore glasses and held a clipboard. “We’re here to interview Ms. Joan Crawford. You know her room number?”

“Oh!” said the clerk, squishing his head back into the folds of his neck as he beamed at them. “We’re so very proud to be hosting Ms. Crawford. You’ll find her up on twenty-five. It’s the suite at the end of the hall. Would you like an escort?”

The agent shook his head and hit the elevator button. “Thanks, we got it. Much appreciated!” The doors slid open. Rotwang and company pressed into the elevator.

“Just call the front desk if you need any help—”

The closing doors cut the clerk off. As they rose, the Nazis let out a collective sigh, but Rotwang remained coiled with tension.

He hated this plan.

There was the easy way, and then there was the hard, and they had been forced to choose the latter. The easy way would have been to wait until the HS1 was alone and isolated and could be taken by surprise. But when Lohman learned of the existence of the other world from Hagen’s report, the easy way went out the window. He wanted the HS1 captured now. He wanted his mind transferred into the machine immediately. He wanted to fulfill his “heroic destiny” by leading a conquering charge into the other world and claiming its treasure as soon as humanly possible. (“Or inhumanly, at the case may be,” Lohman had said, trying to be funny.) What Lohman wanted threatened Rotwang in many ways, not the least of which was that he wanted the exact same thing: seizing the other world was the end game of his own plan for transcendence. When Rotwang tracked

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