The Klaatu Terminus (2014)
“THIS TIME, TO KOSH’S VAST RELIEF, HE was not on the World Trade Center, or tumbling down a steep barn roof to a forty-foot drop. This roof was flat, and the building was not on fire. He looked out over the low parapet. He was on top of the old hotel in Hopewell. The sky was low and gray, with a late-morning feel to it, and that biting autumn cold that comes just before the November snows. It had been early October when the Lambs had taken Emma.
Last time he had been up there, he’d been sixteen ...years old. He and Ronnie Becker had broken into the abandoned hotel and hauled a twelve-pack up to the roof. That had been a fun night — until Ronnie tossed a can of Grain Belt off the roof and hit Elwin Frahlen’s Ford LTD smack on the windshield. Elwin had called the sheriff, and Kosh had spent his first night in jail. They’d caught Ronnie, too, but he’d been in jail before — it was nothing new for him. Kosh could still remember the expression on Adrian’s face the next morning: a frozen mask of contemptuous condemnation.MoreLess
Last time he had been up there, he’d been sixteen ...years old. He and Ronnie Becker had broken into the abandoned hotel and hauled a twelve-pack up to the roof. That had been a fun night — until Ronnie tossed a can of Grain Belt off the roof and hit Elwin Frahlen’s Ford LTD smack on the windshield. Elwin had called the sheriff, and Kosh had spent his first night in jail. They’d caught Ronnie, too, but he’d been in jail before — it was nothing new for him. Kosh could still remember the expression on Adrian’s face the next morning: a frozen mask of contemptuous condemnation.MoreLess
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