Confessions: The Paris Mysteries by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery, Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance
ISBN: 9780316370844
Google: UQ_UngEACAAJ
Amazon: 0316370843
Barnesnoble: 0316370843
Goodreads: 20706313
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

I found Jacob brewing coffee in the kitchen.

He turned, smiled, and said, “A little early for you, isn’t it, Tandy?”

I put a fat stack of papers on the table, including Katherine’s chart, which I unrolled and flattened out, holding down the corners with salt and pepper shakers and a couple of trivets.

I said, “I’m pretty smart, you know, Jacob? Some would say smarter than ninety-nine point nine percent of my peers.”

“I don’t doubt that,” he said. “Is your intelligence in dispute?”

He poured two oversized mugs of coffee and brought them to the table. He slid one over to me and pulled out a kitchen chair for himself.

Then he said, “I’m pretty sure I told you those boxes were off-limits.”

“Well,” I said, “as Katherine’s sister, I think my rights to her stuff override your rights.”

“My fault for not locking them up,” Jacob muttered to himself.

I continued, “I’ve been in the basement for about eight hours, Jacob, and I’ve found some very scary shit.

“I found documents, lab reports, spy agency inquiries, and in-house memos between Peter and Malcolm proving that Angel Pharma was experimenting with nootropics, brain-enhancing drugs, as well as mood-altering drugs and strength and speed enhancers.”

Jacob stirred his coffee but said nothing. I went on.

“Let’s look at Katherine’s official chart, okay? In one year, Katherine’s IQ zoomed from a pretty brilliant one hundred thirty-three to an astonishing one hundred eighty plus.

“Correct me if I’m off the wall here, but an IQ boost of more than forty-five points in the course of a year has never been achieved in recorded history.”

“You think Katherine was given drugs to boost her intelligence,” said Jacob. He didn’t sound surprised.

“You got it,” I said. His flat demeanor was maddening. I stabbed the chart with my finger.

“Here’s a similar trend line in four other categories: physical strength, linguistics, math, and resistance to pain.”

Jacob said, “I see that.”

He got up, grabbed a baguette and a tub of butter from the counter, and brought them over to the table.

I continued my very focused rant.

“This strength drug. MusX. Matty took that. It’s for increasing muscle mass. Here, at the beginning of the year, Katherine could bench-press two hundred pounds. Not bad for a female high school senior with a small bone structure.

“One year later, Katherine could press four hundred forty pounds. That’s about four times her weight and probably an Olympic record. Shall I go on, Uncle?”

“I’ve seen this chart, you know.”

“So you understand, then, that MusX is an untraceable synthetic steroid made in Angel Pharma labs. This drug, plus the brain drugs, and the strength and no-pain drugs, dumbed down to commercial strength, would be pretty valuable in drugstores. But in the full-strength form, in the hands of military agencies, it would be priceless. And I can back that up, too,” I said to my uncle, patting the raft of memos from spy agencies in four countries.

“Maybe Katherine ran off. Maybe it was too dangerous to Angel Pharma for Katherine to be on the loose. What happened to

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