“Well, when you found the next Oracle, be sure to sell me some stock options,” Logan said.
They embraced. “Thanks again, Kim,” he said. “For everything.”
She smiled just a little sadly. “Mind how you go.”
As Logan fired up the Lotus Elan and made his way out of the parking lot, he saw a dark, late-model sedan pull away from a parking space and follow him down the long graveled drive. As he drove, slowly and thoughtfully, through the crooked downtown streets of Newport, the sedan continued to follow him at a discrete distance.
“I don’t know, Kit,” he said quietly to the spirit of his dead wife, who in his fond imagination was sitting in the passenger seat. “Do you think they’ll follow us all the way to New Haven?”
Kit was considerate enough not to respond.
“I hope these Ironhand operatives aren’t too dedicated in their surveillance,” Logan went on. “I’ve got a class in the medieval trade guilds of Siena to prepare for, and this kind of attention could cramp my style.”
And with that he pointed the car toward the Claiborne Pell bridge, Connecticut — and home.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lincoln Child is the New York Times bestselling author of The Third Gate, Terminal Freeze, Deep Storm, Death Match, and Utopia, as well as coauthor, with Douglas Preston, of numerous New York Times bestsellers, most recently Blue Labyrinth. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.