somehow he’d have to try to cover his tracks. Possibly he’d buy some hair bleach, a false mustache. Pay only cash.
Getting away from Cartoon Messiah wouldn’t be hard. Shaking the paparazzi would take a lot of fast thinking.
Sweat made his grip on the wheel slippery.
As he approached Christchurch he saw a streak across the bright northeast sky, a shuttle burning its way across the Pacific from California.
He wondered if there were people on it that he knew.
In his mind, the screams went on.
The End
BOOKS BY WALTER JON WILLIAMS
Novels
Ambassador of Progress
Angel Station
Hardwired
Knight Moves
Voice of the Whirlwind
Days of Atonement
Aristoi
Metropolitan
City on Fire
The Rift (originally as by Walter J Williams)
Divertimenti
The Crown Jewels
House of Shards
Rock of Ages
Dread Empire’s Fall
The Praxis
The Sundering
Conventions of War
Investments (short novel)
Dagmar Shaw Thrillers
This Is Not a Game
Deep State
The Fourth Wall
Collections
Facets
Frankensteins & Foreign Devils
The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories
Privateers & Gentlemen (historical novels, originally as by Jon Williams)
To Glory Arise (originally published as The Privateer )
The Tern Schooner (originally published as The Yankee )
Brig of War (originally published as The Raider )
The Macedonian
Cat Island
Matt Margolis, Mark Noonan