Myron Bolitar 3 - Fade Away by Coben Harlan

Author:Coben, Harlan
Language: eng
Format: epub

Myron Bolitar 3 - Fade Away

‘The feds and cops are cooperating on this one,’ Higgins said. ‘They’re trying to keep this quiet for a while.’

‘Why?’

‘They got her place under surveillance. They’re hoping to maybe draw out another member.’

Myron felt completely numb. He had wanted to learn more about the mystery woman and now he had: she was Liz Gorman, a famous radical who had not been seen since 1975. The disguises, the various passports, the implants — they all added up now. She wasn’t a drug dealer, she was a woman on the run.

But if Myron had hoped learning the truth about Liz Gorman would help clarify his own investigation, he had been sadly mistaken. What possible connection could there be between Greg Downing and Liz Gorman? How had a professional basketball player gotten enmeshed with a wanted extremist who had gone underground when Greg was still a kid? It made absolutely no sense.

‘How much did they get in the bank heist?’ Myron asked.

‘Hard to say,’ Higgins answered. ‘About fifteen thousand in cash, but they also blew open the safe-​deposit boxes. Over a half million in goods have been declared for insurance purposes, but a lot of it is bullshit. A guy gets robbed, all of a sudden he was keeping ten Rolexes in the box instead of one - trying to rip off the insurance company, you know how it is.’

‘On the other hand,’ Myron said, ‘anyone keeping illegal dollars in there wouldn’t declare it. They’d just have to swallow the loss.’ Back to drugs and drug money. The extremists in the underground needed resources. They’d

been known to rob banks, blackmail former followers who had gone mainstream, deal drugs, whatever. ‘So it could have been even more.’

‘Right, hard to say.’

‘You got anything else on this?’

‘Nothing’ Higgins said. ‘It’s being kept sealed tight, and I’m not in the loop. I can’t tell you how hard it was to get this, Myron. You owe me big.’

‘I already promised you the tickets, Fred.’

‘Courtside?’

I’ll do ny best.’

Jessica came back into the room. When she saw Myron’s face, she stopped and looked a question at him. Myron hung up and told her. She listened. Remembering Esperanza’s crack, Myron realized that he had now spent four nights in a row here - a postbreakup world and Olympic record. He worried about that. It wasn’t that he didn’t like staying here. He did. It wasn’t that he feared commitment or any of that other drivel; to the contrary, he craved it. But part of him was still afraid - old wounds that wouldn’t heal and all that.

Myron had a habit of exposing too much of himself. He knew that. With Win or Esperanza it was okay. He trusted them absolutely. He loved Jessica with all his heart, but she had hurt him. He wanted to be tentative. He wanted to hold back, to not leave himself so open, but the heart don’t know from stop. At least, Myron’s didn’t. Two primal internal forces were at odds

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