Deadly Dozen: 12 Mysteries/Thrillers (34 page)

Gaspar smiled. “Too bad about our numbered Swiss accounts, though. Could have made several little girls happy with all that cash.”

Kim nodded and sipped her coffee. “Have you changed your mind about Finlay?”

“Should I?”

“Finlay sent us to the Empire Bank. That’s how we discovered Hale had set up the accounts in our name and Cooper’s, too. Those accounts would have lived forever. Without Finlay, where would we be? Testifying in front of a Federal Grand Jury and dodging the IRS, that’s where.”

“If he gave us a heads up, he had his own reasons.”

“I was wrong about him,” Kim said. “And at least I can admit it. He hated Hale, not Cooper.”

“Probably hated them both.”

“Maybe.”

Across the street a young man in a suit came out of the concrete fortress. A junior agent. Little more than a messenger boy.

Kim said, “Now what,
compadre?
Back to Miami? Hug the kids, say hi to the wife, drink sweet coffee and sit behind your desk for the next twenty?”

The young man in the suit was crossing the street. Heading straight for them.

“That would be a wonderful life,” Gaspar said. “But I think someone has other plans for me. Reacher is still in the wind.”

“He had nothing to do with any of this, did he?”

“He was in Margrave fifteen years ago. I bet he never went back. Why would he? So no, he had nothing to do with any of it. We wasted a lot of time.”

The junior agent approached their table. He said, “Otto? Gaspar?” When they acknowledged, he handed each a small padded envelope.

Unmarked. But recognizable.

Gaspar ripped his open. A cell phone. He shrugged. He slipped the phone into his pocket. Kim looked up at Cooper’s office window. Was he standing behind the reflective glass? Right then? Watching? She saw the messenger boy head back toward the building.

And she saw a man, too, motionless in a shadowed doorway. He was looking straight at her. He was tall, easily six-five, and broad, easily two-fifty. A giant, really. He wore jeans and a leather jacket. Work boots on his feet. He had fair hair and a tan face and big hands. Sunglasses hid his eyes. He looked infinitely patient, just standing there, self-possessed, self-confident, simultaneously alert and relaxed, both friendly and dangerous.

She turned to Gaspar, to point the guy out. When she looked back, he was gone.

THE END

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LEE CHILD

THE REACHER REPORT

March 2nd, 2012

...The other big news is Diane Capri—a friend of mine—wrote a book revisiting the events of KILLING FLOOR in Margrave, Georgia. She imagines an FBI team tasked to trace Reacher’s current-day whereabouts. They begin by interviewing people who knew him—starting out with Roscoe and Finlay. Check out this review …

“Oh heck yes! I am in love with this book. I’m a huge Jack Reacher fan. If you don’t know Jack (pun intended!) then get thee to the bookstore/wherever you buy your fix and pick up one of the many Jack Reacher books by Lee Child. Heck, pick up all of them. In particular, read
Killing Floor
. Then come back and read
Don’t Know Jack
. This story picks up the other from the point of view of Kim and Gaspar, FBI agents assigned to build a file on Jack Reacher. The problem is, as anyone who knows Reacher can attest, he lives completely off the grid. No cell phone, no house, no car … he’s not tied down. A pretty daunting task, then, wouldn’t you say?

“First lines: ‘Just the facts. And not many of them, either. Jack Reacher’s file was too stale and too thin to be credible. No human could be as invisible as Reacher appeared to be, whether he was currently above the ground or under it. Either the file had been sanitized, or Reacher was the most off-the-grid paranoid Kim Otto had ever heard of.’ Right away, I’m sensing who Kim Otto is and I’m delighted that I know something she doesn’t. You see, I DO know Jack. And I know he’s not paranoid. Not really. I know why he lives as he does, and I know what kind of man he is. I loved having that over Kim and Gaspar. If you haven’t read any Reacher novels, then this will feel like a good, solid story in its own right. If you have … oh if you have, then you, too, will feel like you have a one-up on the FBI. It’s a fun feeling!

“Kim and Gaspar are sent to Margrave by a mysterious boss who reminds me of Charlie, in Charlie’s Angels. You never see him … you hear him. He never gives them all the facts. So they are left with a big pile of nothing. They end up embroiled in a murder case that seems connected to Reacher somehow, but they can’t see how. Suffice to say the efforts to find the murderer, and Reacher, and not lose their own heads in the process, makes for an entertaining read.

“I love the way the author handled the entire story. The pacing is dead on (ok another pun intended), the story is full of twists and turns like a Reacher novel would be, but it’s another viewpoint of a Reacher story. It’s an outside-in approach to Reacher.

“You might be asking, do they find him? Do they finally meet the infamous Jack Reacher?

“Go … read … now … find out!”

Sounds great, right? It’s available and you can get it
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So that’s it for now … again, thanks for reading
THE AFFAIR
, and I hope you’ll like
A WANTED MAN
just as much in September.

Lee Child

CRY WOLF
A LAURA CARDINAL NOVELLA

J CARSON BLACK

Copyright © 2013 by Margaret Falk

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CHAPTER ONE
The Crime Scene

Laura Cardinal was just finishing up breakfast when she got the call.

Her sergeant, Jerry Grimes, said, “You like Madera Canyon?”