Chapter 26
It was a bright and sunny morning in Manhattan with clear blue skies. A cool breeze blowing in from the Hudson River made Quinn flip up the collar of her chestnut-coloured coat and tip down the rim of her travel-stained fedora. She stood at the railing of the Observation Deck on the 86 th floor of the brand new Empire State Building. Down below the organised grid of Manhattan stretched as far as she could see. Directly below her, impressive high-rise buildings crowded closely together, but further North they gave way to the more modest apartment buildings of the Upper East and the Upper West Side, which ran all the way up to the slums of Harlem. The only interruption in the endless repetition of uniform city blocks was the large green and brown rectangle that made up Central Pa
