"They wouldn't tell me," he said. "He started some new project exactly a year ago, but the whole thing is a total secret. He was some kind of a very big deal up there, Reacher, that's for sure. You should have heard the way they were all talking about him. Like talking about God. "
I went quiet for a while. I had known nothing about Joe. Nothing at all.
"So that's it?" I said. "Is that all you got?"
"No," he said. "I kept pushing until I got a woman called Molly Beth Gordon. You ever heard that name?"
"No," I said. "Should I have?"
"Sounds like she was very close to Joe," Jeremiah said. "Sounds like they may have had a thing going. She was very upset. Floods of tears. "
"So what did she tell you?" I asked him.
"Nothing," Jeremiah said. "Not authorized.
But she promised to tell you
