The Four-Night Run (36 page)

He awoke with a thundering panic as the cab fell in and out of a pothole. He looked out the window, desperately trying to figure out where he was. It was already bright. The sun glared from behind him. He was in a cab. He was bouncing through the air, soaring high into the sky.

“Hey, you’re up,” said Tomato. “Good. We’re already on the Walt Whitman. Made damn good time.”

Scrbacek leaned over and saw the gray Delaware River flash beneath him and the skyline before him and the morning light all around him, which looked as stark and fresh as a new beginning.

“It’s a big city, Swifferdeck. So whereabouts exactly in Philly we going?”

“Chinatown, Jake. Let’s start it over again in Chinatown.”

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Photo © 2016 Sigrid Estrada

William Lashner is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Guaranteed Heroes
,
The Barkeep
, and
The Accounting
, as well as the Victor Carl legal thrillers, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold across the globe.
The
Barkeep
, nominated for an Edgar Award, was an Amazon and Digital Book World #1 bestseller. Before retiring from law to write full-time, Lashner was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law as well as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and three children.