The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg

Author:Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Humour, Romance, Suspense, Adult, Thriller
ISBN: 9780553392777
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2016-06-20T07:00:00+00:00

“How often do the police patrol down here?” Nick asked.

“Police patrols are limited,” Gaëlle said. “And there’s a lot of ground to cover. Since the Paris terrorist attacks, the police are less interested in writing tickets for trespassing than making sure nobody puts a bomb under the Louvre. So they tend to patrol under important buildings now.”

“Can we turn off the lights?” Kate asked. “I’d like to see the darkness and hear the silence.”

They turned their helmet lights off and then the lanterns. The blackness that came was the most complete Kate had ever experienced. The only sound she heard was their breathing.

They turned their lights back on and Gaëlle led them out of the cavern, down a long, low corridor, and across another gallery and into one of the many tunnels. She stopped in front of a chest-high hole cut in the wall. The hole was about the size of a doggy door. When they emerged on the other side of the hole they were standing in a river of dry human bones that rose as high as Kate’s ankle. The floor of the entire corridor, as far as their headlamps could reveal, was covered with bones.

“You get used to it,” Gaëlle said, heading on down the tunnel. “After a while, you forget they are bones.”

Kate and Nick followed Gaëlle out of the ossuary, up a ladder of iron rungs embedded in the wall, to another level. This was a more modern passage, finished in smooth concrete and lined with all kinds of pipes, wires, and electrical conduits.

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