One Shot - v4 by Lee Child
Author:Lee Child [Child, Lee]
Format: epub
Publisher: Jack Reacher
Published: 2010-07-30T15:55:31.562000+00:00
Emerson and Bianca called it quits at twelve-fifty. Reacher never showed. The feeder flight came in on time. Nobody that could have been a female Brigadier General from the Pentagon got off. The two cops waited until the arrivals hall emptied out and went quiet. Then they got in their car and drove back to town.
Reacher and Hutton had lunch. A waitress came over, happy to get some business out of her corner table at last. The menu was coffee-shop-basic. Reacher ordered a grilled cheese sandwich and coffee. Hutton went with chicken Caesar and tea. They ate and talked. Reacher ran through the details of the case. Then he ran through his theory. The perverse choice of location, the presumed coercion. He told Hutton about Niebuhrâs theory of the new and persuasive friend. Told her that Barr claimed he had no new friends, and very few old ones.
âCanât be a new friend anyway,â Hutton said. âBecause this is a multilayered setup. Thereâs the contemporaneous evidence, and the historical parallels. Second story of a parking garage fourteen years ago in KC, second story of a parking garage here and now. Virtually the same rifle. Boat tail sniper ammunition. And the desert boots. I never saw them before Desert Shield. Theyâre suggestive. Whoever scripted this for him knew all about his past. Which means it isnât a new friend. It canât be. It would take years and years before Barr would feel like sharing anything about KC.â
Reacher nodded. âBut obviously he did, eventually. Which is why I said thereâs someone else out there who knows.â
âWe need to find that person,â Hutton said. âThe mission is to keep the lid on this thing.â
âNot my mission. I donât care if this Petersen guy gets his fourth star.â
âBut you do care that a quarter million veterans donât get their reputations trashed. The scandal would taint all of them. And they were good people.â
Reacher said nothing.
âItâs easy enough,â Hutton said. âIf James Barr doesnât have many friends, you donât have a very big pool to search through. One of them has to be the guy.â
Reacher said nothing.
âTwo birds with one stone,â Hutton said. âYou get to the puppet master and the army gets to relax.â
âSo why doesnât the army do it for me?â
âWe canât afford to draw attention.â
âIâve got operational problems,â Reacher said.
âNo jurisdiction?â
âWorse than that. Iâm about to get arrested.â
âFor what?â
âFor killing that girl behind the hotel.â
âWhat?â
âThe puppet master doesnât like me being here. He already tried something on Monday night, with that same girl as bait. So I went to see her yesterday, twice. And now they killed her and Iâm sure Iâm her last unexplained contact.â
âHave you got an alibi?â
âDepends on the exact timing, but probably not. Iâm sure the cops are already looking for me.â
âProblem,â Hutton said.
âOnly temporary,â Reacher said. âScience is on my side. If her neck was broken by a single blow to her right temple, then her head rotated a little, counterclockwise, which means the punch was thrown by a left-hander.
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