Microsoft Word - LEE CHILD - JACK REACHER 03 - TRIPWIRE by Riviani

Author:Riviani [Riviani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T23:31:49.637000+00:00

'Psychology,' he said. 'It's the basis of any scam, right? You tell people what they want to hear. Those old folks, they wanted to hear their boy was still alive. So he tells them their boy probably is. So they invest a lot of hope and money, they're waiting on pins three whole months, he gives them a photo, and basically they're going to see whatever they want to see. And he was smart. He asked them for the exact name and unit, he wanted existing pictures of the boy, so he could pick out a middle-aged guy roughly the right size and shape for the photo, and he fed them back the right name and the right unit. Psychology. They see what they want to see. He could have had a guy in a gorilla suit in the picture and they'd have believed it was representative of the local wildlife.' 'So how did you spot it?' 'Same way,' he said. 'Same psychology, but in reverse. I wanted to disbelieve it, because I knew it couldn't be true. So I was looking for something that seemed wrong. It was the fatigues the guy was wearing that did it for me.

You notice that? Old worn-out US Army fatigues? This guy went down thirty years ago. There is absolutely no way a set of fatigues would last thirty years in the jungle. They'd have rotted off in six weeks.' 'But why there?

What made you look in the Botanical Gardens?' He spread his fingers against the windshield glass, pushing to ease the tension in his shoulders.

'Where else would he find 'vegetation like that? Hawaii, maybe, but why spend the airfare for three people when it's available free right on his doorstep?' 'And the Vietnamese boy?' 'Probably a college kid,' he said.

'Probably right here at Fordham. Maybe Columbia. Maybe he wasn't Vietnamese at all. Could have been a waiter from a Chinese restaurant.

Rutter probably paid him twenty bucks for the photo. He's probably got four friends taking turns playing the American captive. A big white guy, a small white guy, a big black guy, a small black guy, all the bases covered. All of them bums, so they look thin and haggard. Probably paid them in bourbon.

Probably took all the pictures at the same time, uses them as appropriate.

He could have sold that exact same picture a dozen times over. Anyone whose missing boy was tall and white, they get a copy. Then he swears them all to secrecy with this government-conspiracy shit, so nobody will ever compare notes afterward.' 'He's disgusting,' she said.

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