Vertical by Cody Goodfellow EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Cody Goodfellow
- Language: English
- Genre: Technothrillers
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Click the link, look at the screen,
and you’re falling—
You’re sprinting across an industrial rooftop, springing from
chimney to ventilator hood, leaping over jagged holes in rusty sheet
metal, scrambling for the edge and dropping to a re escape, then
soaring out into space over an alley, tumbling onto a steeply pitched
roof…
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You’re free-climbing the concrete stanchion of a suspension bridge,
attacking the vertical surface with naked ngers, scrabbling for seams
and cracks until the pillar terminates under the cowl of the abutment.
Pivoting and kicking away from the bridge like a spider, you hurl into
the air and dangle from thrumming steel cables high above
expressway trafc. A thundering commuter train passes overhead…
You’re riding the El over Canal Street, but on the roof—doing
cartwheels and handstands, high-ving your friends. Then you atten
against the grafti-strewn deck, whooping with nervous laughter as it
enters a tunnel…
Running from two cops on a busy downtown street. You juke
right, vaulting over a trash can. One cop makes a diving tackle, but he
goes down in a urry of White Castle wrappers as you slice through
the crowd waiting at the curb. Sliding over the hood of a cab, you
reach the opposite curb a split second ahead of a crosstown bus…
Popping a manhole cover, dropping into a sewer, shining your
ashlight on a wall mural more beautiful than anything you’ve ever
seen in a museum…
Hacking the rooftop LED screen on a nancial giant’s Wall Street
tower so your video message blazes out, loud as any billboard
overlooking the stampeding bull statue. Now disguised as a
swaggering, entitled stockbroker, you slip out amid the delicious
chaos…
You’re zip-lining off a skyscraper. Wind and acceleration fold you
into a bullet. Racing over a blur of city blocks, speeding towards a
high-rise parking structure, you follow your crew dropping off the
line, popping parachutes, fatal velocity arrested. They swing
weightlessly on the night wind.
But your chute becomes tangled, collapses into a nylon shroud.
You plummet, spinning fast towards the unforgiving asphalt below…
* * *
Michael Hong squeezed his eyes shut. Underneath his feet the rocking
oor fell away and a harness seemed to lift him up on a ripping wind.
Only to crumple, sending him tumbling into empty space again…
Fighting the waking nightmare, Michael asked himself The
Questions, said the words that would arrest a full-blown panic attack.
Where are you?
I’m on a train… inside a train…
Who are you with?
I’m alone, but I’m good. I’m good…
What do you see?
He opened his eyes. Soupy gray dawn broke through stacked June
gloom clouds over Millennium Park and the Art Institute. No
commuters were staring at him. Nobody could hear his heart
hammering against his sternum.
The video nished playing on his phone.
FURIES/GREATEST.HITS: Watch Again?
A drop of sweat ran down the bridge of his nose and spattered on
the screen. He thumbed back out to the text directory. An unknown
sender with an unlisted Vimeo account; surely an instant Delete. But
he was hovering over the Reply button. Whoever sent it must have
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