CHAPTER FOURGordian House wasn’t a house at all. Not that Lindsey expected it to be one, but he’d looked forward to something more impressive than a dingy office suite on the sixth floor of an aging commercial building on Shattuck Avenue. The furnishings looked as if they hadn’t been changed since Ike was President. There was actually a Remington Standard on the receptionist’s desk and a half-height wooden room divider with a swinging door in it. The only thing missing was a PBX switchboard. They probably kept that in the storage closet, waiting for time to flow backward.
The receptionist looked as if she couldn’t decide whether she was an unreconstructed hippie chick or a frowsy housewife, but when Lindsey presented his card she buzzed him through to an inner office. That was no more mod
