Cemetery Road by Greg Iles EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Greg Iles
- ISBN: 978-0062824615
- Language: English
- Genre: American Literature, Suspense Thrillers, Murder Thrillers
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- Page: 608
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I never meant to kill my brother. I never set out to hate my father. I never
dreamed I would bury my own son. Nor could I have imagined that I would
betray the childhood friend who saved my life, or win a Pulitzer Prize for
telling a lie.
All these things I have done, yet most people I know would call me an
honorable man. I wouldn’t go that far. But I try to be a good man, and most
of the time, I believe I succeed. How is this possible? These are
complicated times.
And it’s not easy to be good.
Chapter 2
Hunched on his knees, Buck Ferris pulled a ball of fired clay from the
sandy soil beside the Mississippi River, then got to his feet with a groan and
climbed out of the hole beside the foundation pier. It was difficult to be
certain about the era by moonlight, and he couldn’t risk a light—not here.
And yet . . . he was certain. The sphere sitting in his palm had been fired a
few centuries before Moses started wandering through the desert with the
children of Israel. Ferris had been an archaeologist for forty-six years, but
he’d never discovered anything like this.
He felt as though the little ball
were vibrating in his hand. The last human to touch this clay had lived
nearly four thousand years ago—two millennia before Jesus of Nazareth
walked the sands of Palestine. Buck had waited all his life to find this
artifact; it dwarfed everything he’d ever done. If he was right, then the
ground upon which he stood was the most important undiscovered
archaeological site in North America.
“What you got there, Buck?” asked a male voice.
Blue-white light stabbed Ferris’s eyes. He nearly pissed himself, he was
so stunned. He’d thought he was alone on the vast, low-lying ground of the
industrial park. A quarter mile to the west, the eternal river flowed past,
oblivious.
“Who are you?” Ferris asked, throwing up his left hand to shield his eyes.
“Who is that?”
“You were warned not to disturb this ground,” said the man behind the
light. “It’s private property.”
The speaker had a refined Southern accent that tickled Buck’s memory.
He couldn’t quite place it, though. Nor could Buck say much in his own
defense. He’d applied for permission to dig in this earth seven times over
the past forty years, and he’d been turned down every time. But five days
ago, the county had cleared the debris of the electroplating factory that had
stood here since World War II. And two days from now, a Chinese company
would begin building a new paper mill in its place. If anyone was going to
find out what lay beneath this ground, it was now—the consequences be
damned.
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