The Affair
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, andincidents either are the product of the author’s imagination orare used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living ordead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Copyright © 2011 by Lee ChildAll rights reserved.Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of RandomHouse, Inc., New York.D
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is a registered trademark of Random House,Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.Title page art from an original photographby Reese Wilson.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataChild, Lee.The affair: a Reacher novel / Lee Child.p. cm.ISBN 978-0-385-34432-6 (alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-440-33935-9 (eBk)1. Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)—Fiction.2. Military police—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Military bases—Mississippi—Fiction. I. Title.PS3553.H4838A63 2011813'.54—dc222011017151Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paperwww.bantamdell.com9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1First EditionBook design by Virginia Norey
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The Pentagon is the world’s largest office building, six and
a half million square feet, thirty thousand people, more than seven-teen miles of corridors, but it was built with just three street doors,each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby. I chose thesoutheast option, the main concourse entrance, the one nearest theMetro and the bus station, because it was the busiest and the mostpopular with civilian workers, and I wanted plenty of civilian workersaround, preferably a whole long unending stream of them, for insur-ance purposes, mostly against getting shot on sight. Arrests go bad allthe time, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose, so I wantedwitnesses. I wanted independent eyeballs on me, at least at the begin-ning. I remember the date, of course. It was Tuesday, the eleventh of March, 1997, and it was the last day I walked into that place as a legalemployee of the people who built it.A long time ago.The eleventh of March 1997 was also by chance exactly four and ahalf years before the world changed, on that other future Tuesday,and so like a lot of things in the old days the security at the main con-course entrance was serious without being hysterical. Not that I in-vited hysteria. Not from a distance. I was wearing my Class A uniform,all of it clean, pressed, polished, and spit-shined, all of it covered withthirteen years’ worth of medal ribbons, badges, insignia, and cita-
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