Blood and Bone by Don Hoesel

Author:Don Hoesel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC042060, FIC002000, FIC030000, Archaeology teachers—Fiction, Elisha (Biblical prophet)—Relics—Fiction, Christian antiquities—Fiction
ISBN: 9781441261441
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

12

THEY WERE ALMOST OUT OF MONEY. After hours of digging, hiding, and running, they were both hungry, and they had spent a good portion of their remaining funds on the shoddy hotel room they now occupied. With the few pounds in Jack’s pocket, they might have been able to find a sandwich to split, but he had his doubts about the edibility of any sandwich they could buy for the money they had.

Right now, though, he was thankful for something with which to occupy himself, to distract him from his empty stomach. Espy had the manila folder open on the bed while he’d placed the duffel bag on a wobbly table by the bolted window. It was a standard green duffel with no markings on the outside to indicate ownership. He unzipped the bag and was unsurprised by what he saw.

There was a handgun on top, a Glock, and two clips. Jack hoped that he wouldn’t have occasion to use either of the guns, but he felt better having them. Still, he reminded himself that these weren’t Gordon Reese’s hired guns, or Victor Manheim’s. These were men and women working security for a well-connected secret society. In some ways, Jack suspected these people were as trained and as capable as the agents they were impersonating. So if he could avoid shooting off even a single round, it was in his best interests to do so.

He set the gun on the table and dug deeper into the duffel. There was a change of clothes, black trousers and a white shirt. Sandwiched between the two articles of clothing lay a passport. Jack shook his head when he saw the French seal. He flipped it open and looked at the picture. It was a young man, twenty-something, clean-cut, unsmiling. There was no way to know if the name was real. He put the passport and clothes on the table and reached for the last item in the bag, his mood immediately brightening. He flipped through the contents of the money clip, a decent amount of cash in euros. As if in acknowledgment of this good fortune, Jack’s stomach made a rumbling sound. He pocketed the money and left the rest out on the table, then crossed to the bed to see how Espy was faring.

The folder lay empty, its contents spread out on the bed. Jack moved so he could look over her shoulder.

“There’s nothing here about us,” Espy said. She picked up one of the pieces of paper, extending it toward him. “Most of it is information about the Chambers. Genealogy, business activities, money trails.” She looked up at him. “There’s a lot here. They’ve either been watching these people for a long while or they’re really good at what they do.”

Given what they’d found in the false grave—what a representative of the Chambers family had seen fit to hide as some sort of insurance policy—Jack suspected the Priests of Osiris had been watching the family for a very long time. Because

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