THE WAVE: A John Decker Thriller by J.G. Sandom

Author:J.G. Sandom [Sandom, J.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CORNUCOPIA PRESS
Published: 2010-05-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Monday, January 31 – 9:27 AM

Woods Hole, Massachusetts

It took Decker a little over four hours to make the drive from New York to Falmouth, Massachusetts, on the Bruckner to I-95, and then east along 195 toward that little spit of land called Devil’s Foot, which juts out from the bottom of Cape Cod. As he approached the harbor, he noticed Martha’s Vineyard lying to the south, like a pearl gray shawl across the bright Atlantic. It was a beautiful winter day, cold and crisp, blown south and east from Manitoba and Ontario, from the arctic wastelands of the north.

By the time Decker entered Falmouth it was almost noon. He traveled south along the coast road until Clearview Avenue; until he saw the mailbox leaning inbetween a pair of stunted hemlocks to the left; the number six, in bright metallic tape; and, finally, turned and snaked his way along the long black gravel driveway leading to the bay.

A rambling white Cape Cod with pale blue shutters was perched on a rocky promontory overlooking the Atlantic and Falmouth Harbor, only two hundred yards from the shoreline. The lawn in front of the house was yellowed and studded with stone. The place looked deserted.

No one answered when Decker crossed the porch and rang the doorbell. Then he noticed the door. It was slightly ajar. He poked his head in, saying, “Hello. Hello, Dr. White?” He stepped inside. Someone else was in the house. He could hear them. “Hello?” he repeated. He had a sudden premonition that he was being watched. Then he saw a young woman in the next room – reflected in a pre-Revolutionary convex mirror – look up and catch his face, and stop, and slowly turn.

“Who are you?” she said, striding toward him with conviction. “And what the hell are you doing here?”

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