Chapter 9
When Quinn woke, he thought for a moment he was in Jakarta again. The TV quietly carried the nature sounds and images that hospitals used to try to soothe—check that, control—patients. As his eyes adjusted to the darkened, antiseptic room—drawn curtains and blinds, monitors, metal beds—the old dread rose and leveled off. Then he flipped the channel, and all hell broke loose.
“Sources close to the New York Templars tell me that they’ll discipline quarterback Quinn Novak for failing to return to New York after Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Quakers,” Ric Wynters was intoning. “Novak was believed to have been partying with a blonde and friends after the defeat. I spoke just moments ago with Coach Smalley, who was livid, just livid about his MIA star. Here’s what the coach had t
