CHAPTER THIRTY
9:15 a.m. Montreal Daylight Time (9:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time)
Old Montreal
Ville-Marie
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Different country, same life.
Lawrence Keller followed nearly identical rituals almost every morning. First, he awoke from a series of nightmares he could barely remember.
He climbed out of the low to the ground, modern queen-sized bed in his Montreal flat and padded into the living room in a pair of boxer shorts and a T-shirt. He hit the remote control and CNN came on. Ah, news from America.
The flat was smaller than his Georgetown apartment, by a lot. It was on the third floor, one floor below the roof, of a two-hundred-year-old building in the oldest section of the city, just a few blocks from the St. Lawrence River.
Unlike the cabin in Vermont, Ke
