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Ellis David

Книга "The Hidden Man"

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  1. Table of Contents Title Page ...
    1. Table of Contents Title Page ...
    2. ALSO BY DAVID ELLIS Eye of the Beholder In...
    3. ...
    4. G . P. PUTNAM’S SONS Publishers Si...
    5. For my beautiful Abigail ...
    6. SUMMER 1980 ...
    7. 1 ACT NORMAL, whatever that means. Normal. Like everyone else. Not differe...
    8. 2 MARY CUTLER’S HEAD jerked off the pillow. A mother’s reflex. She’d been a ligh...
    9. TWENTY-SIX YEARS LATER SEPTEMBER 2006 ...
    10. 3 PACK A MARLBORO LIGHTS, box. Make it two.” Sammy Cutler fished a crumpled twen...
    11. ONE YEAR LATER OCTOBER 2007 ...
    12. 4 HE CALLED an hour ahead for an appointment, and he called himself Mr. Smith. O...
    13. 5 TALIA PUSHES OUR DAUGHTER, Emily, in the stroller through the city’s zoo, stop...
    14. 6 HALF PAST THREE in the morning. We navigated the bar, my brother and I, a plac...
    15. 7 I WOKE UP at eight o’clock and stared at the ceiling of my bedroom for about h...
    16. 8 HIS NAME WASN’T SMITH, though that was the name he had given to the lawyer, Ja...
    17. 9 THEY WEREN’T THE FIRST, the state trooper tells you, as if that were any conso...
    18. 10 I MADE IT to the detention center by two o’clock, having calmed down from my ...
    19. 11 YEAH, that Sammy’s one piece a work.” Patrick Oleari, the public defend...
    20. 12 THE PROSECUTOR on the Cutler case was Lester Mapp. I didn’t know him, but I’d...
    21. 13 AREA THREE HEADQUARTERS was no more than half a mile from where I grew up, a ...
    22. 14 I SPENT THE NIGHT IN, staring at the walls of my bedroom, watching the televi...
    23. 15 YOU’RE TREMBLING when you enter the police station with your mother. Sammy’s ...
    24. 16 THE COP, BRADY, walks you down the hall to the room where they have Sammy. Yo...
    25. 17 YOUR LAST GOOD MEMORY of her, the weekend before she was abducted, the picnic...
    26. 18 MY OFFICE MATE, Shauna Tasker, stuck her head in around six o’clock. She ment...
    27. 19 THIS ONE HAS ALWAYS stayed with you: a family dinner, itself an unusual occur...
    28. 20 I DROVE HOME on empty roads as the sun came up. I took a shower and threw on ...
    29. 21 CAN’T MAKE IT, your brother tells you. Got an algebra test Monday. An a...
    30. 22 THE NEXT MORNING, I left Pete some bacon in a pan and a note, advising him no...
    31. 23 I DROVE BACK to the office, thinking about Sammy and Pete, two people for who...
    32. 24 I SPENT THE NEXT HOUR dissecting that conversation with Smith, trying to igno...
    33. 25 I TURNED TO MY COMPUTER and finished drafting a motion I would file in Sammy’...
    34. 26 REYNARD PENITENTIARY was a maximum-security prison out in rural country, a go...
    35. 27 SOMEWHERE IN TIME after his daughter was molested by Griffin Perlini, Archie ...
    36. 28 WHEN I LEFT Archie Novotny’s place, I kept driving west. I was already in Mar...
    37. 29 PETE HAD ACTUALLY cooked dinner when I got home, chicken pan-fried and sliced...
    38. 30 MY BROTHER AND I went straight home. I set the house alarm and left on the li...
    39. 31 SUNDAY PRACTICE at State is usually the easiest of the week—film of the previ...
    40. 32 JOHN DIXON tooka minute to respond. His head had met the brick wall hard. His...
    41. 33 I LEFT THE HOUSE Wednesday morning alone. A Chrysler sedan followed me from a...
    42. 34 LESTER MAPP’S OFFICE was on the sixth floor, above most of the courtrooms in ...
    43. 35 I NEVER LIKED POLICE STATIONS, even when I was a prosecutor. It reminded me o...
    44. 36 DEPRIZIO WATCHED ME closely as I laid out my story—the part, at least, I was ...
    45. 37 TEN YEARS. TEN YEARS.” Sammy Cutler played the idea over in his head. “Out in...
    46. 38 THE ITALIAN DELI and coffee shop about two blocks from the criminal courts ha...
    47. 39 ABOUT AN HOUR LATER, I found myself in the law firm of Guidry, Rogers, Lionel...
    48. 40 I WALKED BACK from Reggie Lionel’s office in a trance, every assumption I’d m...
    49. 41 YOU KILLED ME, JASON. I awoke with a start, my eyes stinging from the s...
    50. 42 I FOUND TOMMY BUTCHER at the work site in Deemer Park where Butcher Construct...
    51. 43 SMITH FINGERED A BREADSTICK, considering it but unable to bring himself to ea...
    52. 44 I WOKE UP MONDAY MORNING with heavy eyes. I’d slept only in fits. Part of me ...
    53. 45 I DROVE TO THE HOTEL, with the dawning realization that Pete wouldn’t be ther...
    54. 46 JUST PAST THREE in the morning, two men—two of Smith’s men—approached the tow...
    55. 47 I STOOD AGAINST the all-glass south wall of the building to maximize the rece...
    56. 48 I’D JUST RETURNED to my law office when Smith called again. “You withdrew the...
    57. 49 PEOPLE VERSUS PETER KOLARICH, Case Number 08 CR 67782.” “Good morning, ...
    58. 50 SAMMY WAS BROUGHT into the courtroom at a little after nine in the morning. T...
    59. 51 OBJECTION.”I got to my feet on shaky legs. Lester Mapp handed me a certified ...
    60. 52 LET’S SAY EIGHT. Eight years, out in four, with one already served. That’s th...
    61. 53 CARLO BUTCHER SATpassively in the kitchen, his three children—Marisa, Jake, a...
    62. 54 HE WENT to the construction site, then to St. Agnes Hospital to visit someone...
    63. 55 I TAPED BACK UP the bubble wrap holding the finger and put it in my freezer, ...
    64. 56 SHAUNA SENT OUR ASSISTANT, Marie, for sandwiches and coffee. I felt a little ...
    65. 57 I AWOKE WITH A START, to the vanishing sensation of being electrocuted, only ...
    66. 58 HE WON’T DO IT. Kolarich won’t save DePrizio’s ass.” Carlo Butcher stood in h...
    67. 59 IRAN FROM THE ELEVATOR out of the building, across the street to the parking ...
    68. 60 THANK YOU, RAYMOND.”Carlo handed me back the cell phone. “Your brother is on ...
    69. 61 HIS NAME WASN’T SMITH. It was Raymond Hertzberg, an attorney in private pract...
    70. 62 SAMMY WALKED THROUGH the corridor tentatively, a coat thrown over his wrists ...
    71. 63 I THOUGHT WE TALKED about eight,” Sammy said from his hospital bed. “We...
    72. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As always, I am indebted to others in the writing of this novel:...
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