No Escape: The Reacher Experiment Book 3 (The Jack Reacher Experiment) by Jude Hardin

Author:Jude Hardin [Hardin, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-21T22:00:00+00:00

9

“He was a Military Policeman,” Wahlman said.

He and Kasey had decided to stay at the shabby little motel, which wasn’t all that shabby once you got to your room. It was as clean and comfortable as any of the chain places Wahlman had been staying at, and the nightly rate was about half what those places usually charged. He and Kasey had decided to stay in the same room, and they had decided to sleep in the same bed. They hadn’t actually done any sleeping yet, but they had done just about everything else a man and a woman can do on a king size mattress in a motel room ten miles west of Vegas between seven and nine o’clock on a Friday evening, including at least one thing that you weren’t likely to find in any sort of manual or magazine.

Kasey snuggled in close and rested her head on Wahlman’s shoulder.

“Who was a Military Policeman?” she asked.

“Jack Reacher. He was a lawman. Like me.”

“You were an MP?”

“Master at Arms. That’s what they call it in the navy, but it’s basically the same thing.”

“Do you think about him a lot?”

“Reacher?”

“Yes.”

“I do,” Wahlman said. “I’ve been doing some research online, trying to gather as much information as I can, thinking that maybe something he did or said might provide some insight into my current predicament. Apparently he’d been involved in what Detective Collins referred to as some questionable activities after he got out of the army, some vigilante justice stuff and whatnot, but I haven’t been able find any details on any of that yet.”

“What have you been able to find?” Kasey asked.

“Mostly records from court martial proceedings that he’d been involved in. He was a good cop. And a good guy, all-around, as far as I can tell. Which makes me happy, since he’s the closest thing to a biological father I’ll ever have.”

“Remarkable that they were collecting cells for a future cloning experiment way back in nineteen eighty-three,” Kasey said.

“Yeah. So far, there’s no indication that Reacher was aware that he’d been chosen as a donor. Supposedly there were forty of them. American Soldiers. They had been injured during an attack in Beirut, Lebanon, but I’m guessing that they were healthy otherwise, and I’m guessing that they weren’t chosen at random. I’m guessing that there was something about their physical and mental attributes that the army wanted to copy. Supposedly there were two fetuses produced from each donor. And supposedly, out of the eighty fetuses produced, the two from Jack Reacher were the only two that survived.”

“Darrell Renfro and you,” Kasey said.

“Right.”

“Which means that you and Renfro were the strongest. The crème de la crème. The baddest of the badasses.”

“I guess so,” Wahlman said. “Assuming all that stuff about the experiment is true. Right now I’m just going on the word of a man who was trying to kill me. But he was convincing. He sounded like he knew what he was talking about. And of course the DNA tests that Collins ordered confirmed the genetic connection.

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