Buried (Hush collection) by Jeffery Deaver

Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

12

The backhoes and jackhammers sat idle.

Worried the machinery might entomb Jasper Coyle with brick and stone, the authorities had the rescue workers dig by hand.

Fitz jockeyed for position among the other journalists, print and broadcast, behind the yellow tape barricading off the construction site where an old building was being demolished.

This was an old portion of town, filled with redbrick and limestone buildings dating back at least one hundred years. A grassy park was across the street, with an ancient cannon pointing westward, a direction from which no enemy had ever approached the town of Garner.

City Hall and other administrative offices were nearby, as was police headquarters. A full complement of law enforcers too—city, county, state and fed, all under the calm direction of Special Agent Sandra Trask.

A supervisor called to one enthusiastic pick-axer, “Careful. If he’s down there, we don’t want to knock something down on him.”

The worker shot back, “If he’s down there, he needs fucking air.”

Fitz approached a broadcast reporter he knew, a veteran ABC and NBC reporter now with National Public Radio. Fitz had little use for TV journalism, now that Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley were gone, but he respected NPR for the depth it brought to stories. He asked the man how they’d found Coyle.

“Well, that’s a story and a half,” the man said, laughing. He explained:

Agent Trask had given a statement about cracking the code. A woman in the Shetland Islands, the United Kingdom, who was “rather addicted to crosswords,” had figured out the limerick.

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