Matt Ruff by Sewer Gas & Electric-The Public Works Trilogy

Author:Sewer, Gas & Electric-The Public Works Trilogy [Sewer, Gas & Trilogy, Electric-The Public Works]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-01T17:24:49+00:00

Soon the FBI will have a Thousand Most Wanted List. Our heroes will be hunted like beasts in the jungle.

-Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

39° 17’ N, 72°00’W

“It’s a gravesite,” Philo said.

“Potentially,” Lexa agreed. “I checked a marine atlas: these coordinates are for a patch of ocean over the Hudson Canyon. The water’s over a mile deep. It’s also a red zone for mutant sea-life sightings, which means the area is closed to commercial traffic. So if you have to abandon ship, there won’t be anyone coming by to pick you up.”

“No, but what I mean is, it’s literally a gravesite.”

They were alone in the Robbins Reef Lighthouse. Lexa had finished her call to Joan some ten minutes before, and now she and Philo sat crosslegged on the futon, facing each other, cloaked in blankets and nothing else, with nothing between them but a photograph that had been hand-delivered the night before. Lexa had driven into New BedfordStuyvesant to pick up some things, and when she’d returned to the car she’d found the photo tucked under Betsy’s windshield wiper.

“Not the feds this time,” Betsy Ross had said. “Guy in a Mets blazer. Took me a while to I.D., but he’s an e-mail clerk at Gant Public Opinion, gopher for Vanna Domingo.”

The photograph was a group portrait of six skinny, long-tailed primates. Lemurs were a popular subject in extinct-animal picture catalogs, but these lemurs had been posed around a propped-up copy of the current Long Dis tance Call, the headline and date crisply in focus. A brief message had been laserscripted across the back of the photo:

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