The Age of the Conglomerates: A Novel of the Future by Nevins Thomas

Author:Nevins, Thomas [Nevins, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780345509482
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

We

Christine found the envelope with her name written on it. It had been pushed under her door. Her first thought was to call the investigators and report her find, but she dismissed the idea and went into the bathroom. She reached into the cabinet beneath the sink for a plastic bag and the small doctor’s bag she kept as an emergency kit. She removed a pair of rubber gloves and a surgical mask, put them on, opened the medicine cabinet, took out tweezers, and headed back to the front door. She picked up the envelope with the tweezers and dropped it into the baggie and went back into the bathroom. She held the baggie up to the light. She opened the toilet seat in case she had to dispose of whatever was inside. She used the tweezers and pulled the folded paper from the envelope. She unfolded the paper with the tip of a file and glanced at it quickly before she placed it into the bag.

She closed the lid of the toilet, sat down. It was a handwritten note. At first the line breaks made it appear as if it might be a poem. It didn’t appear to be a letter, which is what Christine had hoped it would be. But the more Christine looked at it, the more she was convinced it had to have come from Gabriel. He liked to talk about poetry and writing and the books he had read. She wondered if it was a trap. But the handwriting was unique, and difficult to make out. In fact, she wasn’t sure what it said. If it had been a setup by either the investigators or her boss, why would they have made it so hard to read?

Christine decided to look at it as if it were a math problem. “What’s the given?” And it came to her. She focused on the letters of her name written on the envelope and transposed the letters from the envelope to the writing on the document, and between the two vowels and the handful of consonants, Christine was able to establish a key.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.