“You OK?” she asked.
He shrugged. “I guess.”
“So let’s go.”
The driver fought traffic twenty blocks uptown and went underground into the same crowded garage Lamarr had brought him to. They used the same elevator in the corner. Rode up to the twenty-first floor. Stepped out into the same quiet gray corridor. The driver preceded them like a host and pointed to his left.
“Third door,” he said.
James Cozo was behind his desk and looked as though he might have been there for an hour. He was in shirtsleeves. His jacket was on a hanger on a bent-wood hatstand. He was watching television, political cable, an earnest reporter in front of the Capitol, rapid cutaways to the Hoover Building. The budget hearings.
“The return of the vigilante,” he said.
He nodded to Harper and closed a file. Muted the television sound and pushed back from his desk and rubbed his hands over his narrow face, like he was washing without water.
“So what do you want?” he asked.
“Addresses,” Reacher said. “For Petrosian’s boys.”
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“The two you put in the hospital? They won’t be pleased to see you.”
“They’ll be pleased to see me leave.”
“You going to hurt them again?”
“Probably.”
Cozo nodded. “Suits me, pal.”
IB He pulled a file from a stack and rooted through it. Copied an address onto
a slip of paper.
“They live together,” he said. “They’re brothers.”
Then he thought again and tore the paper into shreds. Reversed the open file on the desk and took a new sheet of paper. Tossed a pencil on top of it.
“You copy it,” he said. “Don’t want my handwriting anywhere near this, literally or metaphorically.”
The address was near Fifth, on Sixty-sixth Street.
“Nice neighborhood,” Reacher said. “Expensive.”
Cozo nodded again. “Lucrative operation.”
Then he smiled.
“Well, it was,” he said. “Until you got busy down in Chinatown.”
Reacher said nothing.
“Take a taxi,” Cozo said to Harper. “And you stay out of the way. No overt Bureau involvement here, OK?”
She nodded, reluctantly.
“Have fun,” Cozo said.
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