Foreign and Domestic: A Get Reacher Novel by Scott Blade

Author:Scott Blade
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Black Lion, LLC
Published: 2015-12-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

EDWARD LANE’S WIFE HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED—both of them.

This had happened less than ten years ago. Cameron thought back to the report from his mother’s cell phone files. She had spent eighteen years studying all the cases across the country that had Jack Reacher’s special fingerprints all over them. Of course, she’d rarely gotten official confirmation that he was involved. Sometimes she’d get an officer on the phone from some obscure town here or there, and that officer would confirm that Jack had been there.

After tracking him for a while, she started to find patterns even though he wasn’t the kind of guy to leave traces or follow patterns. Nevertheless, there were patterns to be found. For example, some cases fell in diagonal lines across the United States like a giant X. Sometimes she found motel registries with the names of dead presidents. And sometimes she found them with dead baseball players. Jack had been using the names of dead people as aliases when filling out hotel registries.

Cameron’s mother believed that Jack had killed Lane and dumped his body somewhere in England. The last visible trace of Lane’s existence was a plane ticket to London he’d bought. He and his mercs had then rented rooms in some out-of-the-way inn. Some of them had returned without him. The last sighting of him, according to them, was in farm country. And then those guys had died not long after.

Cameron said, “Let me guess. John Lane had a brother named Edward?”

Rowley said, “Yes. How’d you know that?”

“And he’s the one who has taken Raggie?”

“That’s right? Do you know him?”

Cameron said, “Tell me the rest.”

Rowley said, “When we got back, we told our story. The brass listened. And we told the truth. At least I did as well as Cord and Lucas and Haverly and Graine. I don’t know what Lane told them, but whatever. It seemed that the brass wanted to blame someone, but they were facing two problems. The first was that this was a black op that no one wanted to be made public. Americans didn’t want to know that we were involved in secret missions in nowhere Africa. Truth was, we were only invested in the region because we were searching for proof of WMDs being sold throughout the region. And this guy Chang had information.”

Cameron said, “So he’d only help if we helped him?”

Rowley said, “Right. We scratch his back sorta thing.”

Cameron stayed quiet.

Rowley said, “Anyway, the Army decided there was nothing they could publicly do to Lane. They broke us up for a bit, and I never saw Lane again.”

“But that’s not the end of the story is it?”

“No. I had heard that the CIA wasn’t happy about what we had done. I also heard that Lane later went on another mission back into West Ganbola. Back into the jungle.”

“What happened?”

“He never came out. He went in on a forced rescue mission to get Chang back. A kind of penance for giving him up in the first place, I guess.

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