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Book 2, Chapter 49: The Pattern

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I did not answer the engineer in the corridor.

I looked at the piece of steel in his gloved hand for a long second and then I looked at Marcus, and Marcus was already on his phone. I said one word to him and Marcus nodded, and Marcus said the word back into the phone, and Nathan Sterling was in a car in from Riverside inside eleven minutes.

Nathan came up the fire stairs at eleven twenty six because the elevators were still closed to everyone with a badge that was not Ramirez's.

He was still in
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