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sure he said he was."
    "You asked for ID?"
    Lang was getting a weird feeling somewhere around the bottom of his stomach, like maybe something he'd eaten was about to seek revenge. "He showed it. Looked okay to me, and I've seen a lot of 'em."
    "I'm sure you have."
    Another pause.
    "Mr. Reilly, I'll come straight to the point. No Charles Witherspoon works out of this office."
    Lang barely heard the other man ask for a description and request an immediate call if the mysterious Mr. Witherspoon reappeared.
    He spent a full minute staring at the phone after he had hung up.
    * * *

    Book of Jereb
    Chapter One
    1.     And after the death of Amenhotep III the son of the king became pharaoh until Moses was cast out of the house of pharaoh and sent into Sinai, where he remained for seven years. And on behalf of the Israelites, he pleaded with the new pharaoh to free the Israelites.

    2.     But Pharaoh's heart was hardened against Moses, and he said unto him, "Why do you seek to take from me my people, who are the makers of brick and harvesters of wheat?" And Moses answered, "It is the will of the one God." Whereupon Pharaoh became angry and would not permit Moses to look upon him again until great misfortune had befallen all of Egypt.

    3.      Then Pharaoh called Moses unto him and said, "Give me proof your single god can lift from us these afflictions which our gods will not." Whereupon the priests of Pharaoh cried, "Lord, the god of the Israelites is but one while ours are legion. Tell us, how can one god defeat all others, for are they not all gods?"

    4.     Moses said unto them, "Show me that power your gods hath given you and the one God shall be mightier than all of them." Whereupon Pharaoh's priests threw down their staffs, which became serpents of great size so that Pharaoh cried out, "Have you brought vipers unto me so that I might perish?"

    5.     But Moses feared not but threw down his staff also and it became a serpent smaller than the others, but it devoured each of them in turn until none was left before Pharaoh.

    6.    And Pharaoh had seen what had happened and said to his priests, "Is not the god of Moses more powerful than your gods? Are not those of our people who worship this god made powerful thereby? Should we not do as Moses asks?" And the priests had no answer.

    7.      And so Moses said to the Israelites,"Gather your children and your wives. Take with you your asses, sheep, and other animals, for God has granted us Pharaoh's mercy and we shall leave Egypt."

    8.      But when Pharaoh saw how many Israelites were to depart Egypt and saw the labors that thereby would be undone, his heart became as a stone and he sent soldiers to stop the Israelites from going forth. And Moses came to him, saying, "You have decreed that the Israelites may go forth from Egypt but now you say not. "And Pharaoh answered, I do as does a god, for is not Pharaoh a god also?" And Moses went away angry but there was naught he could do.

    9.     And Moses went forth into the desert for forty days, during which time he spoke with the one God. And the one God directed him to a mountain where the Egyptians and their slaves labored both day and night to make great wonders with gold, some of which Moses took with him and returned to Egypt to again plead with Pharaoh.

    10.       And Pharaoh heard Moses and let the Israelites go forth into the desert before he again hardened his heart against the Israelites.

EIGHT

    Peachtree Center
    227 Peachtree Street
    Atlanta, Georgia
    11:40 EST
    Lang had a lunch date.
    Since Gurt's departure he had resisted the overtures of the predatory single women in his condo building. Divorced, they uniformly decried the size of their alimony checks and the injustice of their prenups while refusing to seek gainful employment. Instead they prowled Buckhead's better spas, restaurants, and social events like coyotes at the edge of a campfire. They searched endlessly for lifestyle