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Last Chance to Die
Noah Boyd
For my wife, Patti,
who has always grown stronger the more impossible things become
Contents
Before
KATE BANNON THOUGHT SHE WAS HAVING A NIGHTMARE, BUT ACTUALLY…
One
KATE BANNON OPENED HER DOOR. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?”
Two
THE BLACK TOWN CAR PULLED UP TO THE CURB IN…
Three
AFTER KATE HAD WALKED THE DIRECTOR OUT, SHE CAME BACK…
Four
WHEN THEY GOT TO THE CAR, VAIL SAID, “YOU KNOW…
Five
KATE LISTENED TO VAIL’S SHALLOW BREATHING AND FOUND IT REMARKABLE…
Six
IT WAS ALMOST 11 P.M. BY THE TIME VAIL CHANGED CLOTHES,…
Seven
KATE FOUND A PARKING SPACE NEAR THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF…
Eight
THE TALL, SLENDER MAN WITH THE SPLAYED NOSE SAT BEHIND…
Nine
WHEN THEY WALKED INTO THE OBSERVATION ROOM AT THE SIXTEENTH…
Ten
VAIL WAS SITTING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE WITH HIS INJURED…
Eleven
LUKE, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND IGNORE THE STUFF ON…
Twelve
VAIL AND BURSAW SAT IN THE FRONT SEAT OF THE…
Thirteen
IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON WHEN VAIL…
Fourteen
VAIL HAD GOTTEN IN ABOUT FOUR HOURS EARLIER, AFTER A…
Fifteen
SITTING IN THE BACKSEAT, KATE LISTENED TO KALIX AND LANGSTON.
Sixteen
THE THREE UNIT AND SECTION CHIEFS WERE ALREADY SEATED IN…
Seventeen
ONCE VAIL REACHED THE HIGHWAY, HE STAYED IN THE RIGHT…
Eighteen
THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT ASKED VAIL IF HE WANTED ANYTHING TO…
Nineteen
AT A FEW MINUTES BEFORE EIGHT THE NEXT MORNING, VAIL…
Twenty
JOHN KALIX WATCHED VAIL COME THROUGH THE GATE AFTER THE…
Twenty-One
AFTER MORE THAN THREE HOURS OF INTERROGATION BY THE ANNANDALE…
Twenty-Two
WHEN THEY GOT TO THE OFF-SITE, JOHN KALIX WAS PARKED…
Twenty-Three
AS BURSAW DROVE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THE CITY’S STREETS, VAIL ASKED…
Twenty-Four
THE PHONE RANG. BURSAW PICKED IT UP AND PUSHED THE…
Twenty-Five
THE FIRST GRAY LIGHT OF MORNING SEEPED INTO THE BEDROOM,…
Twenty-Six
BURSAW PARKED THE BUREAU CAR IN HIS SISTER’S GUEST PARKING…
Twenty-Seven
AS SOON AS VAIL REACHED THE OTHER SIDE, HE TOOK…
Twenty-Eight
KATE WAS THE LAST TO ARRIVE AT THE DIRECTOR’S OFFICE.
Twenty-Nine
IT WAS DARK WHEN KATE GOT BACK FROM THE PENTAGON.
Thirty
WHEN KATE CAME IN THE NEXT MORNING, SHE FOUND VAIL…
Thirty-One
WHAT!”
Thirty-Two
UNSURE WHERE IT WOULD TAKE THEM—AND NOT SURE SHE CARED—KATE…
Thirty-Three
AS THEY NEARED THE ADDRESS FOR MASTER SERGEANT LONGMEADOW’S APARTMENT,…
Thirty-Four
THE NEXT MORNING KATE PICKED UP AN ORDER OF STEAK…
Thirty-Five
THE SURVEILLANCE SQUAD’S OFF-SITE HAD BEEN CAREFULLY EELECTED. THE NEIGHBORHOOD…
Thirty-Six
AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER, THE TWO MEN THAT…
Thirty-Seven
THE BLURRY LIGHT OF DAWN HAD COME UP JUST AS…
Thirty-Eight
IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND KATE COULDN’T…
After
VAIL WALKED UP TO THE FRONT DOOR OF THE SIX TEENTH…
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BEFORE
KATE BANNON THOUGHT SHE WAS HAVING A NIGHTMARE, BUT ACTUALLY SHE WAS dying.
Only her nagging self-awareness, even in this somnolent state, was forcing her to remember that she didn’t have nightmares. The frightening
