The Man Who Strikes Fear by Dan Ames

Author:Dan Ames [Ames, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Slogan Books LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

24

Pauling’s eyes snapped open.

She glanced at the clock next to her bed.

Just past three in the morning.

She felt disoriented, dazed slightly from a dream about Jack Reacher and a vague memory of running through a maze of train tracks running alongside a river with the skyline of New York in the background. In the dream, Pauling had been chasing someone. But the person was much faster and was getting away, opening up more and more distance between them.

The person was a man. Very tall. Athletic, but very slim.

Who was he?

Pauling closed her eyes. This used to happen quite often when she worked at the Bureau, as her mind endlessly chewed over a case or a problem for which she couldn’t find a solution. Sometimes, she wondered if her brain was working so hard as she slept that it forced her body to wake up.

Now what?

Pauling vacillated between getting up and making some coffee, or rolling over and trying to get back to sleep.

In the end, she split the difference and remained in bed, her eyes open, staring at the ceiling.

What was she missing? Why had her subconscious put her near a set of railroad tracks chasing a tall man?

Who was he?

She retreated to her last thoughts before she finally fell asleep last night. They had revolved around the Giles case, naturally. The link between Reacher and Giles. There wasn’t one.

It was easy to understand the running in her dream; she was chasing down leads, confused by a lack of direction and any clear signals.

Maybe the man she was chasing was Giles’ killer. But how would she know that? Why had her subconscious made him so tall and thin? Where had that come from?

The one thing she knew was that the running man wasn’t Reacher.

Reacher wasn’t quite that tall, and he certainly wasn’t skinny. Jack Reacher was 6’ 5” and somewhere in the neighborhood of 280 pounds. Massive shoulders, long arms, and a deep chest. The kind of guy who strikes fear in the hearts of weaker men.

No, the running man wasn’t Reacher.

This man was a little taller, and a lot thinner. Maybe from a distance he would look like Reacher. Or like he was related to him– Pauling sat bolt upright in bed.

Her eyes were wide and they stared into the darkness of the bedroom as her mind raced.

A relative.

Another Reacher.

She thought back to her time with Jack Reacher and remembered that he told her he had a brother.

A brother named Joe.

Joe Reacher.

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