CHAPTER NINE
The fall felt impossibly long.
As the SUV’s front tires lost the ground beneath them and rolled out over nothing, Reid threw open the driver’s side door and, with a burst of adrenaline, leapt out of the car. A half second before that he shouted “Jump!” He heard Otets’s high-pitched moan of fear as he too threw open his door.
And then they fell through darkness toward the rushing water below. Reid thought it strange, in that moment, that there was no hypnic jerk, no falling sensation as they dropped quickly toward the Meuse—and then thought it was stranger still that his mind could be so cognizant and lucid while plummeting over a cliff.
They hit the river’s surface a half second before the SUV and several feet away. An electric shock scorched Reid’s entire body as they str
