Jack Reacher 13: Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Author:Lee Child
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781409081746
Publisher: Random House
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

FORTY-FOUR

I woke up all over again, but I didn’t open my eyes immediately. I felt like the clock in my head was back on track, and I wanted to let it calibrate and settle in undisturbed. Right then it was showing six o’clock in the evening. Which meant I had been out about another eight hours. I was very hungry and very thirsty. My arm hurt the same way my leg had. A hot little bruise, right up there at the top. I could feel that I still had no shoes. But my wrists and my ankles weren’t fastened to the rails of the cot. Which was a relief. I stretched lazily and rubbed a palm across my face. More stubble. I was heading for a regular beard.

I opened my eyes. Looked around. Discovered two things. One: Theresa Lee was in the cage to my right. Two: Jacob Mark was in the cage to my left.

Both of them were cops.

Neither one of them had shoes on.

That was when I started to worry.

If I was right and it was six o’clock in the evening, then Theresa Lee had been hauled in from home. And Jacob Mark had been brought in from work. They were both looking at me. Lee was standing behind her bars, about five feet away. She was wearing blue jeans and a white shirt. She had bare feet. Jake was sitting on his cot. He was wearing a police officer’s uniform, minus the belt and the gun and the radio and the shoes. I sat up on my cot and swung my feet to the floor and ran my hands through my hair. Then I stood up and stepped over to the sink and drank from the faucet. New York City, for sure. I recognized the taste of the water. I looked at Theresa Lee and asked her, ‘Do you know exactly where we are?’

She said, ‘Don’t you?’

I shook my head.

She said, ‘We have to assume this place is wired for sound.’

‘I’m sure it is. But they already know where we are. So we won’t be giving them anything they don’t already have.’

‘I don’t think we should say anything.’

‘We can discuss geographic facts. I don’t think the Patriot Act prohibits street addresses, at least not yet.’

Lee said nothing.

I said, ‘What?’

She looked uneasy.

I said, ‘You think I’m playing games with you?’

She didn’t answer.

I said, ‘You think I’m here to trap you into saying something on tape?’

‘I don’t know. I don’t know anything about you.’

‘What’s on your mind?’

‘Those clubs on Bleecker are nearer Sixth Avenue than Broadway. You had the A train right there. Or the B or the C or the D. So why were you on the 6 train at all?’

‘Law of nature,’ I said. ‘We’re hardwired. In our brains. Middle of the night, full dark, all mammals head east instinctively.’

‘Really?’

‘No, I just made that up. I had nowhere to go. I came out of a bar and turned left and walked. I can’t explain it any better than that.

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