CHAPTER 21
ISOLATED WATER pipes and electrical cables lined the top of the roughcast walls. In the dark, along endless whitewashed corridors, they found many of the doors to be locked and sealed. Mostly, the retrieval team shone their flashlights through the dusk to check for broken seals. Then they passed on, leaving Smith to wonder what the asylum hid within these rooms, presumably medical records. It was a great place to keep records where the Department of Justice couldn’t have a look. Occasional safety lights by the floor helped them negotiate the endless corridors, their points of dusk alternating with darkness.
The floor had vinyl coating that squeaked under the synthetic soles that Smith wore for friction. Suddenly the vinyl started to feel sticky under his shoes and someone bell
