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1 " You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho "
― David Baldacci , The Forgotten (John Puller, #2)
2 " Zero Day was here. "
3 " They were not rich. They were not powerful. They were truly the forgotten. "
4 " A Sig P228. But it had "
5 " To Aunt Peggy, an angel on earth if ever there was one "
6 " People with power and means would always take advantage of those without them. "
7 " sheen on the water’s surface that could be "
8 " a Mexican border town just across the line from Brownsville, Texas, one of the most dangerous places on earth. "
9 " She had spent considerable time writing the letter. The younger generation, with all of its tweets and Facebook and cryptic texts and emails where no actual language or grammar were involved, would never have understood taking the time "
10 " side. Diaz the right. They were prepared for a war. They did not find one. They did not find anyone at all. The warehouse was empty. The makeshift prison cells held no one. They searched the space in ten minutes and then regrouped in the center of it. Puller said, “They move fast, I’ll give them that.” “But where have they gone?” asked Carson. “We can get APBs out. They have to be using trucks "
11 " –Los mejores líderes dejan que su gente haga lo que mejor sabe hacer. "
12 " platform would look, well, abandoned. Not a "
13 " crushed by the "
14 " room. It was four a.m. and he had not yet been to sleep. "
15 " The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle. "
16 " stroke he imagined plunging "
17 " bikini with a short terrycloth cover-up over it. "
18 " CHAPTER 33 PULLER WAS FOLLOWING LANDRY over to her place. She was ahead of him in a dark blue, white-topped Toyota FJ four-by-four Cruiser. It looked rugged and durable and ready to roll on asphalt or sand, which was probably why she had purchased it. "
19 " Having exhausted the possibilities based on his limited investigation so far, he got out of the car, walked down a wooden boardwalk, and reached the beach. It was nearly six-thirty, and the café where he was meeting Timmins was close by. He decided to walk along the sand both to relax a bit and to think some more while the waves pounded the shore. "
20 " Puller thought about this. He still didn’t have a place to stay, but he didn’t think it was a good idea to crash at Landry’s place again. And even though he had finished processing his aunt’s home he still didn’t feel comfortable staying there. She had left it to him, of course, so he had every right to be there if he wanted. But what it really came down to was that until he figured out what had happened to her, Puller didn’t think he deserved to stay in the woman’s house. Not after all those years of not contacting her, letting her tumble from his life like an insignificant piece of debris "