Dead Shift by Phillips Richard

Author:Phillips, Richard [Phillips, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2015-05-19T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 53

Seated in the lotus position atop the queen-size bed, Jack let his mind float, tethered to a tiny point of flame in an infinite sea of darkness. Jack released the thin strand that connected him to that pinpoint, allowing himself to float deeper and deeper into the dark.

The dream coalesced around him, along with the full knowledge that it was more than a dream, that there was a primal sense of another presence. Anchanchu. Once again, Jack found himself in that familiar nineteenth-century London alley. Apparently Anchanchu regarded it with a fondness that most people associated with home.

As Jack stepped forward into that fog, he saw the dark figure, fifty feet in front of him, and broke into a sprint toward it. Anchanchu ducked to his left, passing through a yellow door as if he were a wraith and Jack followed, now less than a dozen feet behind.

A dimly lit cave opened up before him and, as in his previous dream, another Jack stood before him, this time with his gun leveled at a skinny, ragged man whose dirty-blond dreadlocks hung almost to his waist.

“Freeze!” The other Jack’s command rang through the still night air like the tolling of a church bell.

The ragged man froze, then turned away from the girl’s limp body, which hung like a rag doll. She was suspended by her cuffed wrists, chained to the wall in a way that reminded Jack of cramped al-Qaeda torture cells in the Middle East. And hanging on a meat hook beside her was Harry’s broken body.

For a fraction of a second, that sight stunned Jack, allowing Anchanchu to increase his lead. Then Jack forced himself away from the strange vision that unfolded before him to race after Anchanchu, out of the cave and down a steep, dark slope. Five feet ahead of him, Anchanchu jumped off the cliff.

Screw it! This was Jack’s dream and he could take a suicidal dive as well as Anchanchu. At full sprint, Jack reached the cliff’s edge and plunged outward and down.

Willing himself forward, Jack reached Anchanchu before they hit the ground, reaching out to grab his throat with both hands. At that touch the world melted away around him.

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