The place was barren. Rain slashed through steel fencing, soaking the run and the exercise-paddock. The paddock was illuminated by banks of security lights, and closed off from the run by a slab of rusted iron, which was secured between grooved uprights and connected to a pulley, like a guillotine. An identical door blocked access to the habitat.
Sandwiched between them, the run was isolated. About 18 feet long and six feet wide, it was usually used to transfer Napoleon from his habitat to the paddock. But the man had his own use for it, and his own name.
He called it The Straitjacket.
He went to the control box, mounted on a pole where the run and paddock met. He keyed in the code on the touchpad beside it, ran his card through, and flipped it open. There were three large plungers insi
