The Friday 56 for 5/7/21: A Wanted Man by Rob Parker

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from 56% of:
A Wanted Man

A Wanted Man by Rob Parker

We go through all the names quickly, and Jack identifies each one as one of his father’s friends or family members. He can’t identify a couple of them, but the picture is already clear. The first phone is for personal use only – a useful tool for organising the dualities of the life he had chosen.

That poses the inevitable question of the twenty-six names on phone two. Call signs or numeric pseudonyms for twenty-six people who clearly got the special treatment. How best to find out who they are, though? And of course, what was that third phone used for, if not for business or personal? That makes me question if there’s a fourth, that perhaps he had one with him when he was taken. I could ask Jack, but all three phones are identical. ‘IPhone 4S’ in black, ‘32GB’ it says on the back of each. There’s no telling them apart. Even the home screen wallpapers are the same.

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2 Comments

  1. I have a friend named Rob Parker… LOL… Not the same guy. Sounds like a good read though. Happy weekend!

    • HCNewton

      Probably not. 🙂 It’s one of those names…having read 60+ novels by Robert B. Parker, it feels a little strange to see/say “Rob Parker.”

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