“You’ve got to. It won’t be any fun if you don’t.”
“I told you, I can’t stand roller coasters.”
“Comeon .”
Terri hesitated, glanced sidelong at the girl. “You’ll give me back that Brubeck CD you ‘borrowed’ three months ago?”
“Okay.”
“Andthe Art Tatum?”
Georgia made a face. “Okay.”
“I’ll think about it.”
Sarah laughed, held the door for Georgia. She watched the girl strap herself in, then ducked inside and hugged the girl tightly.
“Bye, Georgia,” she said.
“You mean it?” Georgia asked. “About Atlantis, I mean?”
“Of course. Stop by Guest Services. Your dad has my extension.”
Now Sarah came around the car, leaned against Warne’s open window. She wore no makeup, and the bright sunlight turned her eyes a pale jade.
“Good luck with the install,” she said.
He bent toward her, kissed her cheek. “See you round the Park.”
She smiled, straightened. Nodded.
And as he pulled away from the lot—headed for the interstate and Las Vegas—Warne could still see her in the rearview mirror, motionless as a gilded shadow, framed against the low Art Deco lines of Embarkation, arm raised in farewell.
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All of the characters and locales in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Map illustration by Laura Maestro
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Child, Lincoln.
Utopia: a novel / Lincoln Child.
p. cm.
1. Amusement parks—Fiction. 2. Criminals—
Fiction. 3. Robots—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.H4839 U86 2002
813'.54—dc21 2001059869
eISBN 0-385-50669-4
Copyright © 2002 by Lincoln Child
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