The Book of Bones (Harvey Bennett Thrillers 7) by Nick Thacker

Author:Nick Thacker [Thacker, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2019-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

39

Reggie

“We found a piece of the Book of Bones,” Reggie said. “In Egypt, in a vault beneath the Sphinx.”

Garza sat back in his chair, the front two legs lifting off the ground. He sat across from Reggie, who was seated in the basement cavern in a similar chair, five feet from The Hawk. His bodyguards stood behind him and to the side. Far enough away that Reggie would have a tough shot at running toward them, close enough that their shot wouldn’t miss.

It had taken all of his nerve not to rush the stairs when the three men had returned. He’d stood in the center of the floor, near the table on which his casket had been placed, and waited for them to arrive. One man was carrying two chairs, and he placed these facing each other in the center of the room.

Reggie wanted to kill them. He figured he might even have a chance at it, but he knew they were expecting a fight. Prepared for a fight.

He had to fight back feelings of fear. Of what had become of Sarah. When he’d called up to Garza through the door, the screaming had stopped.

But was that a good thing or a bad thing?

He decided to play along, to at least give her a chance.

“It was a journal, something Rachel Rascher’s great-grandfather had been working on during the Nazi regime.”

“Sigmund Rascher,” Garza said.

Reggie nodded. “Yeah. Sadistic son-of-a —”

“I know who he is, thank you.”

Reggie sniffed. He’d wanted to finish the sentence. Just like you, asshole. He stared at Garza, wondering how long he’d have to play along to win Sarah’s freedom.

He knew it was far too much to ask to expect that both of them would be freed, but he had to play the game for Sarah’s sake.

“Anyway, she was continuing experiments he’d started back in the ‘30s. Drowning people in ice-cold water, suffocating them to study the effects of high-altitude flying in low-oxygen conditions. Stuff like that.”

“And Die Glocke.”

“Yeah,” Reggie said. “‘The Bell.’ A Nazi experiment that they believed would allow them to ‘test’ people for some kind of purity.”

“The Aryan race, I presume.”

“Yeah, I guess. Blond hair, blue eyes. Guess those traits weren’t enough for the SS. They wanted more proof that their people were perfect, so they created a machine to prove it.” He chuckled. “But it didn’t work.”

“It didn’t?”

“Well, we think it killed people just fine. But it operated on some electrically charged chemical, one that would disperse a poison into the air and infect anyone close by. Some people survived, most didn’t.”

“And that was a failure?” Garza asked.

Reggie shrugged. “Arsenic kills people in high enough dosages. But people have different immune responses — they’re more resilient, more capable of fighting against pathogens.”

“True,” Garza said. “So maybe it had nothing to do with race, but more to do with finding the strongest of the population.”

“Right,” Reggie said. “Too bad they didn’t have giants.” He cocked an eyebrow at his ex-boss and smiled.

“What else was in the

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