Chapter 54
3:23 a.m.
Municipal Detention Center - Washington, DC
Everything was white.
The walls and the floors were white. The overhead lights were bright and white. The sliding electronic metal gates that slid open and clanged shut behind him were painted white.
They processed Luke and put him in a holding cell with half a dozen other men. The room was large. It was white, with dirty handprints all over the walls. The floor was white, going toward dingy gray from the bottoms of a thousand pairs of sneakers. There was a urinal and a toilet built into one wall. The floor sloped very gradually toward the middle, where there was a small, round open drain.
A dirty white bench ringed the walls of the cell, reaching almost halfway around. Luke paced the cell for several minutes while the
