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Lena walked back toward the tape, her reflection a wavering ghost in the oily puddles.
Lena leaned in. Just behind the hairline, barely visible in the sodium-yellow glare of the work lights, was a tiny, healed scar. It was perfectly circular, about the diameter of a grain of rice. And beneath it, she could feel it—a small, hard nodule under the skin. doa 061
The body was in a drainage culvert, half-sitting, half-sprawled against a concrete abutment. It was a man, mid-forties, dressed in a remarkably well-tailored charcoal suit for a corpse found in a gutter. No wallet, no watch, no phone. The first thing Lena noticed was the serenity. His face was composed, almost peaceful, as if he'd simply decided to take a nap in the muck. The second thing was his right hand. It was clenched around a small, pearlescent white object—an old-fashioned computer mouse. Its cord had been neatly severed, the copper wires fanned out like tiny, frozen lightning bolts. Lena walked back toward the tape, her reflection
"Meet John Doe," said Dr. Aris Thorne, the coroner, without looking up. He was a small, precise man who treated death with the same affectionate fussiness a watchmaker might afford a broken chronograph. "Or, as I've labeled him in the system, DOA 061." It was perfectly circular, about the diameter of
"Then tell them I'm dying to meet them."