The Dead Man Vol 2: The Dead Woman, Blood Mesa, and Kill Them All by Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin & James Reasoner & Harry Shannon & David McAfee

Author:Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin & James Reasoner & Harry Shannon & David McAfee [Goldberg, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2012-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

The rest of the night passed quietly enough, although Matt was restless, his dreams haunted by visions of Mr. Dark and all the evil he had witnessed in recent months. He woke up sweating a couple of times, even though the dry, high desert air grew rather chilly before morning.

Everyone would be responsible for cooking, cleaning up after meals, and all the other mundane chores that kept the camp functioning while the dig went on. This morning two of the young women, Maggie Flynn and Astrid Tompkins, were preparing breakfast. Matt accepted a cup of coffee from Astrid, a young black woman with a killer smile.

Thinking back to his high school days, Matt recalled that most of the really smart girls had also been pretty good-looking. He didn’t know why that was, but obviously that was still the case. Jerry was right: all six of the female grad students were attractive.

After breakfast, which was over by the time the sun had risen much above the horizon, the members of the group scattered to three dig sites. Dr. Varley headed toward the spot where Matt had felt that eerie, unpleasant sensation the previous evening. As Matt trailed behind him with an armload of tools Varley had asked him to bring, he said, “Excuse me, Doctor, but are you sure this is a good place to dig?”

Varley stopped short and turned around to look at Matt with an irritated expression on his lined and weathered face. “And exactly how many books on archeology have you written, Mr. Cahill?”

“You know I haven’t written any,” Matt said.

And I’ve never even read any, but I know a bad place when I see it.

“Well, then, I think we’ll leave those decisions up to me,” Varley said.

Matt nodded. “Sure, Doctor.” What else could he say?

April and Scott assisted Dr. Varley, along with Sierra Hernandez and Chuck Pham. Hammond’s excavation was a couple of hundred yards away. He had Brad Kern, Rich Rankin, Noel McAlister, and Maggie Flynn working there with him. Still farther away, almost on the other side of the settlement, Ronnie was excavating one of the collapsed kivas with the help of Jerry, Ginger, Astrid, and Stephanie Porter. Matt circulated among all three locations, fetching equipment and tools for the scientists and helping to haul away chunks of rock that were too big for one person to handle.

Hammond was as ugly as ever with the rotting sores on his face, but they didn’t seem to be getting any worse, which surprised Matt a little because he had expected some progression. He kept a close eye on the others as well, in case sores began to pop up on their faces, but so far that hadn’t happened. He didn’t really like some of them, but he knew it was possible for people to be assholes without being truly evil.

Matt kept drifting back to Varley’s excavation, convinced that if anything happened, it would be there. Varley had used stakes and twine to lay out a rectangle with a large rock at each corner.

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