Chapter 76: Chapter 76

The ladies on the first floor were entertaining. It was too early for Matheson to be home from the WBIS—he’d actually moved in with Theo after they’d returned from Cambridge—and Theo hadn’t gotten out of the habit of sleeping late. I saw no one, and no one saw me.

I emptied the CD wallet onto my computer desk and started transferring the data. It didn’t take long, not as long, in fact, as it had taken me to burn the CDs. Then I seta program running that would extract the information I needed. I keyed in the parameters, hit Enter, and went into the bathroom to peel off the latex appliances before washing away all evidence of Dwayne J. Lester.

By the time I was dressed, the computer had printed out a number of pages that contained some of the information I needed. I scanned them quickly.

Son of a bitch. Quinn had gone to Paris looking for his own people, putting his life on the line, because that was the kind of man he was. He’d gone using the name Leonard Burroughs.