The Reacher Code: Timestream 1 by Jude Hardin

Author:Jude Hardin [Hardin, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

11

Wahlman had started remembering some things on the way to Diane’s apartment. By the time he parked his bike on the cobblestone street in front of her building and walked up to her stoop and reached for the doorbell, most of it had come back to him.

He’d been recruited by a secret government agency called the Federal Commission on Yesteryears and Years to Come. The FCYYC. He’d been sent back in time on a series of reconnaissance missions in preparation for a bodyguard assignment that had been scheduled for tonight. He’d been slated to protect a man named Jack Reacher from an assassination attempt.

Reacher.

The man Diane had mentioned in the elevator.

You wouldn’t believe how much you look like one of the patients on the third floor.

Wahlman looked like Reacher because he was Reacher’s clone—an exact genetic duplicate, produced in 2057 from a blood specimen that was drawn in 1983.

From a specimen that was drawn tonight.

Which meant that if Reacher was killed before the blood was drawn, Wahlman—along with thousands of eighteen-year-old Special Forces candidates, Reacher clones that were produced in 2083—would cease to exist.

A group called Topple, headed by a former FCYYC senior scientist named William Top, was determined for that to happen. Nobody seemed to know exactly why. Something to do with monetary gain. That was the theory. Top wanted to alter the past in an effort to make the future more profitable for himself and his group.

In this particular timestream, the one Wahlman was in right now, the one where today’s date was 27 October 1983, the one that the Director of the FCYYC had labeled The Reacher Code: Timestream 1, Wahlman was roughly twenty years older than Reacher. Which was why Diane had thought that Wahlman might be Reacher’s dad. In Wahlman’s home timestream—the one where today’s date was 18 October 2101, a hundred and seventeen years and three hundred and fifty-four days from now, the one where Wahlman had grown up in an orphanage and had spent twenty years as a Master-At-Arms in the United States Navy, the one where Wahlman himself had been targeted for assassination three years ago—Wahlman had a wife named Kasey and a stepdaughter named Natalie, and they were the world to him. He couldn’t remember exactly what had happened to them, only that the agency was somehow keeping them safe, in another timestream, an earlier one where the fifty-seven minute rule didn’t apply.

During one of the recon missions, Wahlman had been involved in an accident that had left him in a coma. But as he pressed the button to ring Diane’s doorbell, he started thinking that maybe the accident hadn’t really been an accident. He started thinking that an enemy operative might have intentionally tried to take him out of the picture.

The door swung open. Diane was wearing pink sweat pants and a t-shirt with the logo of a popular soft drink printed on the front. No shoes. Her hair was a mess and her face was a little red on one side and marked with pillow creases.

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