The Savior's Game (The Daniel Byrne Trilogy Book 3) by Sean Chercover

Author:Sean Chercover [Chercover, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781477848791
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2017-08-07T22:00:00+00:00

19

So they kept moving. A nonstop flight to Paris on Air France, followed by a CityJet flight to London, then changing planes for a connecting flight to Antwerp.

In every departure lounge, television screens played scenes of angry public protests spreading around the world, and huge displays of The Truth (So Far) about Trinity stood at the entrance of every airport bookstore and sundry shop, and everywhere Daniel looked, he saw posters advertising the book.

The posters featured the headline READ THE BOOK THAT’s CHANGING THE WORLD, above a photo of the book and a larger picture of Julia, smiling into the camera lens.

Daniel was struck by how little Poster-Julia looked like herself, the smile lines beside her eyes and the frown line in the middle of her forehead all Photoshopped out of existence. Clearly, her publisher’s advertising department believed the book that’s changing the world should’ve been written by a younger version of Julia.

Nice priorities, thought Daniel.

In Antwerp, Pat and Daniel used new passports to rent a Mercedes sedan, and then hit the highway, driving an hour south through the black Belgian night.

It was just after two a.m. when they stopped in downtown Brussels, at La Porte Noire, an old basement cellar bar with vaulted brick ceilings, over a hundred different beers, and live music by a band called the Narcotic Daffodils.

The music was good, the cheese plate and beer absolutely necessary. On the run since midday yesterday—five cities in four countries in fourteen hours—Daniel was running ragged. And tomorrow they’d fly to Dusseldorf, rent another car and head north, changing passports again for the border, and drop that car in Amsterdam. Then fly to . . . hell, might as well fly to the moon.

“This is not a sustainable plan,” Daniel said. “I have to cross over.”

“What?”

“I have to go back to Source.”

“That doesn’t sound like a better plan,” said Pat. “You think Noah can find you here, but you know he can find you there. He got to the professor in Source, even with all her experience there. What makes you think he won’t find you?”

“He will.” Daniel took a swig of beer. “But you’re wrong—I do know he can find me here. He sent Drapeau for me in Barbados—I’m sure of it. The question isn’t whether he can find me, it’s how long it takes him after he starts looking. Like we’ve said, time moves slower there—I mean a lot slower. We were only in the float tanks four and a half minutes, but in Source we were there for hours. We got a lot done in that time. So the plan is: I go back, poke around, get near the tower, see what I can learn. Maybe I’ll run into one of the other Independents, who knows?”

“Pretty big risk for who knows.”

“No choice. To beat your enemy, you must understand what your enemy wants. Yes?”

“Yes.”

“I can’t learn that here. So I go back, ready to bug out as soon as I see a raincloud.”

Pat drank some bottled water.

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