They Disappeared. Rick Mofina
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Название: They Disappeared
Автор: Rick Mofina
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Приключения: прочее
isbn: 9781472000668
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“What! That’s crazy!”
“Maybe something went wrong, or you didn’t know who you were dealing with.”
“This is insane! Tell me who was in that SUV!”
Glaring at Jeff, Brewer reached for his BlackBerry, entered a command.
“This was in the SUV, Jeff. It matches the description in your report.”
He slid the device to Jeff, carefully studying his reaction as Jeff looked at the crisp photograph of what remained of a New York Jets ball cap. Only a ball cap. Half consumed by fire, half scorched, but clearly identifiable, small, white with the green jet patch on white, familiar to Jeff as the one they bought for Cole.
Oh, Jesus. Oh, Christ, no.
Jeff looked at it until it blurred.
They’re gone.
Jeff ached to pull Cole and Sarah from the darkness.
Sitting there in that small police room, the shock of seeing Cole’s burned ball cap propelled him back to Montana and the morning he’d found Lee Ann.
Her little face all blue, her mouth a tiny O.
His futile efforts to save her.
He thought of his baby daughter with Sarah and Cole and that moment he saw the three of them through the window from his pickup in the driveway.
That perfect moment.
He struggled to hang on to those images but they were gone.
Jeff put his face in his hands and in that cold, hard room he never felt the heat of Brewer’s and Klaver’s stares as Brewer slowly slid back his BlackBerry. Chairs scraped; the detectives gathered their files.
“We’ll leave you alone to consider matters,” Brewer said.
The door opened to ringing phones, conversations and the squawk of walkie-talkies. Above the din Jeff recognized Cordelli’s voice in a fragment of conversation. “Brewer! Did you get my message? My supervisor called yours and—”
The door closed, leaving Jeff alone, adrift in a sea of torment. Minutes passed with the same questions hammering against his skull: Who would steal his wife and son? Who? Why? His confusion and grief coiled into anger.
He would find them.
Whoever did this, he would hunt them down.
The door handle clicked.
This time Brewer entered with Cordelli.
“You can go now. Cordelli will take you out,” Brewer said.
“What?” Jeff threw his question to Cordelli, then back to Brewer.
“Thank you for your help. We’ll be in touch,” Brewer said.
Jeff swallowed.
“What about my wife and son? Can I see them?”
“It’s not them,” Brewer said.
“It’s not them?” Jeff absorbed the news.
“The medical examiner just confirmed the remains belong to two adult males. We’re still working on identifying them.”
“What the hell is this? You show me my son’s cap, you lead me to believe my family’s dead, you accuse me of planning this whole thing. What is this?”
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