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    Sparrow Falls
    Sparrow Falls
    Sparrow Falls
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    Sparrow Falls

    By Christopher Bunn

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    Flavin's wife was dead. She was gone and she'd taken all his reasons to live. But when his old boss from the security agency comes calling with one last job, Flavin can't turn him down. And in the heart of the city, with the ghosts from his past whispering in his ear, Flavin discovers a secret that just might be worth dying for.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Bunn
    Release dateApr 22, 2016
    ISBN9781533724878
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      Sparrow Falls - Christopher Bunn

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      SPARROW FALLS

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      SPARROW FALLS

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      The cell phone rang in Flavin’s pocket. He ignored it. Rain fell on his umbrella and dripped off the edge. He stared down at the gravestone, not really seeing the black marble. Instead, he saw his wife’s face. He knew her face when she had been a little girl, when they had met in the first grade. And he knew her face all the way through its maturations and refinements, from six years old until the age of thirty-three.

      Thirty-three, he thought dully. You would have been thirty-four today, Lynn. I figured we’d have another forty years at least. Happy birthday.

      Thank you. You always were good about remembering.

      Her voice seemed to whisper in the air. Startled, he turned around, almost sure for a moment that she’d be standing behind him. No one was there. The cemetery stretched away in endless rows of gravestones and grass, blurred in the falling rain and shadowed by the darkness of the brooding sky. He was alone.

      Flavin placed the flowers on the gravestone. He walked away, his boots squelching in the mud. The cell phone rang again, right after he shut the door of his truck. The noise was loud in the confines of the cab. He recognized the number on the screen. He turned off the phone. Rain drummed on the roof. He stared blankly out the windshield for several minutes.

      Time only goes forward, her voice whispered. I’m sorry.

      Reluctantly, he started the engine.

      The bar was empty when Flavin walked in except for an old man huddled over his glass at the end of the counter. The after-work crowd wouldn’t be in for another hour. He sat down. The place smelled of stale beer and greasy food.

      Scotch, he said to the bartender. The bartender came back with a glass and a bowl of nuts. He drank, felt the whiskey burn down his throat with a sensation that almost felt like pain, a welcome sort of hurt, but even that faded quickly away into nothing. The bartender refilled his glass without a word. He was on his third shot when someone sat down on the stool next to him. The person cleared his throat.

      Flavin.

      He ignored the voice and concentrated on the taste of the whiskey. He didn’t like it. He never had. People always said the taste will grow on you. Just give it some time. They were wrong. They were wrong about most things. The taste never grew on him. It still tasted like cleaning fluid. But it helped. It helped make things disappear.

      Flavin.

      Go away, he said, not bothering to look up from his glass. He knew the voice. He knew it as well as his own voice. Vernon. His old boss at the agency.

      You never answer your phone, said Vernon.

      No one ever calls, said Flavin.

      He took another drink. Maybe if he got drunk, Vernon would disappear. But he knew that wouldn’t happen. The old man was a persistent bastard. Besides, things always reappeared in the morning. Things came back into focus. He couldn’t hide in the bottom of a bottle. But he could sure try.

      I’ve got a job for you, said Vernon. Nothing too serious, but I need it kept quiet and off the books. A favor for an old friend of mine. It would probably only take a couple days at most. Maybe a week.

      No.

      Vernon sighed. "Look, Flavin. You haven’t paid your rent in months. Your utilities were shut off in December. You’re gonna be

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