Tell David to reach him or her when he’s...
Tell David to reach him or her when he’s secure
“A code?”
“Jesus, Mo, use your head! An alias, a Jones or a Smith—”
“They’re rather common names—”
“Then Schicklgruber or Moskowitz, whatever you like! Just tell him to let us know where he is
“Now get out of here, and don’t go home! Take a room at the Brookshire in Baltimore under
the name of—Morris, Phillip MorrisI’ll meet you there later
“What are you going to do?”
“Something I hateWithout my cane I’m buying a ticket for this fucking roller coaster
Nobody’ll look for a cripple on one of these thingsIt scares the hell out of me, but it’s a logical
exit even if I have to stay on the damn thing all nightNow get out of here! Hurry!”
The station wagon raced south down a backcountry road through the hills of New Hampshire
toward d&g replica luggage the Massachusetts border, the driver a long-framed man, his sharp-featured face intense, the
muscles of his jaw pulsating, his clear light-blue eyes furiousBeside him sat his strikingly
attractive wife, the reddish glow of her auburn hair heightened by the dashboard lightsIn her arms
was an infant, a baby girl of eight months; in the first backseat was another child, a blond-haired
boy of five, asleep under a blanket, a portable guardrail protecting him from sudden stopsThe
father was David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, but once part of the notorious, unspoken-of
Medusa, twice the legend that was Jason Bourne—assassin
“We knew it had to happen,” said Marie StJacques Webb, Canadian by birth, economist by
profession, savior of David Webb by accident“It was merely a question of hermes bag time
“It’s crazy!” David whispered so as not to wake the children, his intensity in no way diminished
by his whisper“Everything’s buried, maximum archive security and all the rest of that crap! How
did anyone find Alex and Mo?”
“We don’t know, but Alex will start lookingThere’s no one better than Alex, you said that
yourself—”
“He’s marked now—he’s a dead man,” interrupted Webb grimly
“That’s premature, David‘He’s the best there ever was,’ those were your words
“The only time he wasn’t was thirteen years ago in Paris
“Because you were better—”
“No! Because I didn’t know who I was, and he was operating on prior data that I didn’t know a
damn thing aboutHe assumed it was me out there, but I didn’t know me, so I couldn’t act
according to his scriptHe saved both our lives in Hong fake chanel handbag Kong
“Then you’re saying what I’m saying, aren’t you? We’re in good handsThat poor beautiful man is deadThey’ll take him and break him!”
“He’d go to his grave before giving anyone information about us
“He won’t have a choiceThey’ll shoot him up to the moon with Amytals and his whole life will
be on tapeThen they’ll kill him and come after me after us, which is why you and the kids are
heading south, way south
“I’ll send them, darling
“Will you stop it! We agreed when Jamie was bornIt’s why we got the place down there, why
we damn near bought your kid brother’s soul to look after it for usAlso, he’s done pretty damn
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wellWe now own half interest in a flourishing inn down a dirt road on an island nobody ever
heard of until that Canadian hermes birkins hustler landed therein a seaplane
“Johnny was always the aggressive typeDad once said he could sell a broken-down heifer as a
prime steer and no one would check the parts
“The point is he loves you I’m also counting on that wild man’s— Never mind, I
trust Johnny
“While you’re trusting so much in my younger brother, don’t trust your sense of directionYou
just passed the turn to the cabin
“Goddamn it!” cried Webb, braking the car and swerving around“Tomorrow! You and Jamie
and Alison are heading out of Logan AirportTo the island!”
“We’ll discuss it, David
“There’s nothing to discuss Webb breathed deeply, steadily, imposing a strange control“I’ve
been here before,” he said quietly
Marie looked at her husband, his suddenly passive face outlined in the dim wash of the
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