Two Graves

Pendergast had beaten him here: he could see the agent at the far end of the lot, beside the burned-out remains of a taxi, speaking to a uniformed police officer and what looked like a small CSI team. Organized crime.” Pendergast took this in without replying. She could see the future parading before her eyes: the police arriving, her arrest, the discovery that she was her father’s daughter, which in turn would lead to her father’s arrest. The common way is by restoring him to health.” “What’s the other?” “Putting him out of his misery.” The thin smile vanished. “In any case, with his work finally complete—or, more precisely, no longer necessary—Dr.