CHAPTER 56

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When Friday clicked off her cell phone, Lee, stabilized with union blood, sitting up in bed, in a double room with no roommate, reading—and with a stubby pencil furiously annotating—a Christopher Hitchens book, asked, “Harry?”

“He broke into the banker’s house,” Friday said.

“Banker, huh?” Lee said. “I hope he did a lot of damage.”

“Harry’s the one who was damaged,” Friday said.

“I’ll be okay,” Lee said. “Sounds like the guy needs you.”