The Providence Rider by Robert McCammon

Author:Robert McCammon [McCammon, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Matthew Corbett, colonial america, adventure, historical thriller, thriller, history
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: 2012-04-23T06:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

Sirki pushed the covered object to the head of the table. By the time he’d reached it, the Thackers had grumbled curses at Matthew and resumed their seats. Matthew saw Minx return the knife to its safe place beneath her waistcoat. Jonathan Gentry poured the last few drops of Juice of Absence into his wine and drank the concoction down, thirsty perhaps for a sense of removal from the scene before him. Cesar Sabroso quietly cleared his throat. Adam Wilson seemed to be there even less than before. Fancy darted a quick glance across the table at Matthew. Toy blotted Augustus Pons’s lips and whispered something into one of the blackmailer’s ears, which surely had heard their share of secrets.

Matthew waited, his eyes slightly narrowed and his jaw set.

Sirki whipped the brown tarpaulin off. Revealed underneath was a man in a chair, set upon a polished wooden platform with rollers on the bottom.

But yet not a man, Matthew realized.

It was the image of a man. A portrayal of a man. A facsimile, and that was all.

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