Rescue by Gordon Korman

Author:Gordon Korman [KORMAN, GORDON]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

Doctors John and Louise Falconer left their house via the back door. Each had spent more than a year in a maximum-security prison, yet this was the first time either of them had run from the police. They could not allow the officer parked in front of their home to see their departure.

The two criminology professors climbed the fence that separated their yard from the neighbors’. It wasn’t easy in their winter coats and heavy boots. Their destination was a place that had just seen two feet of snow.

They crossed the neighbors’ property and emerged on the other side of the crescent. There, waiting for them, was Rufus Sehorn, at the wheel of a huge Range Rover.

In spite of his nervousness, John Falconer was curious. “What happened to the Prius?” The Blog Hog normally drove the Toyota hybrid.

“We’re going to blizzard country,” Sehorn told them. “Only an idiot would try to drive a regular car up there.”

Louise’s question was a practical one. “Have you got the money?”

She opened the door of the SUV, and her answer lay across the rear seat. She struggled to push the large Samsonite suitcase aside to make room for herself. Her husband got it beside the driver.

“Three million,” the Blog Hog confirmed.

“I believe it,” she told him. The bag must have weighed sixty pounds. She remembered the duffel of bundled hundred-dollar bills from the previous ransom attempt several days before. It had held two million. The Samsonite was that much heavier.

Sehorn reached around from the front, holding a steaming thermos. “Anybody hungry? I brought pea soup.”

The two professors made no reply. It was not out of rudeness. Both felt nothing but friendship and gratitude toward the blogger. But the meeting that would decide whether their daughter would live or die was just a few hours away.

Pea soup was the last thing on their minds.

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