"Going somewhere she’d never seen, at night, in a van with two men, with equipment, reminded her of the beginning of the Curfew, minus Heidi Hyde."
"Milgrim had been thinking about offering Brown a Rize, when he spotted the IF walking along the sidewalk."
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Chapter 73. SPECIAL FORCES
Riding in the van with Garreth driving, Hollis admires fifteen-year-old Tito's presence ["pretty enough, at rest, almost feminine, but when he moved with purpose, he became beautiful"]. Garreth tells Hollis how he came to meet the old man who he learned was a career national security agent, pissed off about 9/11, who lives to harass "people profiting from the war in Iraq." [375 characters]
Is Tito really only 15 ? Or did he just appear that way to Hollis ?
Chapter 74. AS DIRECTED
Watching Brown mutter and act intensely nervous as they get closer to the turquoise shipping container, Milgrim thinks back on meeting Brown when the he sees the IF ["like a younger Johnny Depp, but ethnic"] walking by in his bright-green jacket. As Brown wildly swerves the Taurus in his direction, Tito jumps over the car before it crashing into a "large nursery toy, full of concrete."With sirens approaching, an injured Brown ditches the Glock into a nearby trashcan and gives Milgrim the pack of bubble-wrapped Rize. When Brown tells Milgrim to come help him, Milgrim says "No, sorry" and walks away from the scene and Brown as quickly as he can. [651 characters]
In this novel American and Japanese car brands are outnumbered by German ones (Volkswagen Phaeton and Jetta or the Mercedes Maybach Brabus)..