Jack Reacher 15: Worth Dying For by Lee Child

Author:Lee Child
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781407083131
Publisher: Random House
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Reacher listened to the ring tone. It was loud and sonorous and resonant in his ear, the product of a big old-fashioned earpiece maybe an inch and a half across, buried deep inside a big old-fashioned plastic handset that probably weighed a pound. He pictured the two phones ringing in the motel, fifty miles north, one at the desk, one behind the bar. Or maybe there were more than two phones. Maybe there was a third extension in a back office, and a fourth in Vincent’s private quarters. Maybe the whole place was a regular rat’s nest of wiring, just like the inside of a lunar module. But however many phones there were, they all rang for a long period, and then one of them was answered. Vincent came on and said, “This is the Apollo Inn,” just like Reacher had heard him say it before, very brightly and enthusiastically, like it was a brand-new establishment taking its first-ever call on its first-ever night in business.

Reacher said, “I need Eleanor Duncan’s phone number.”

Vincent said, “Reacher? Where are you?”

“Still out of town. I need Eleanor’s number.”

“Are you coming back?”

“What could possibly keep me away?”

“Are you not going to Virginia?”

“Eventually, I hope.”

“I don’t have Eleanor’s number.”

“Isn’t she on the phone tree?”

“No, how could she be? Seth might answer.”

“OK, is the doctor there?”

“Not right now.”

“Slow night, then.”

“Unfortunately.”

“Do you have his number?”

“Hold the line,” Vincent said. There was a thump as he put the handset down, maybe on the bar, and then a pause, just about long enough for him to walk across the lounge, and then the sound of a second handset being raised, maybe at the desk. The two open lines picked up on each other and Reacher heard the room’s slow echo hissing and bouncing off the round domed ceiling. Vincent read out a number, the area code and seven more digits, and Reacher repeated them once in his head and said, “Thanks,” and hung up and redialed.

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