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On the other hand, as he scanned the floor he noted there were already tracks everywhere, crisscrossing this way and that, laid down by urban archaeologists and those people called “creepers” who made a hobby of exploring dangerous, abandoned buildings. === Silicon Valley casual chic – the black T-shirts and linen jackets with skinny jeans and those Spanish shoes that were all the rage --- what were they called? Pikolinos. === …a family gone wrong thanks to too much money, too many ex-wives, too much dysfunction. === …as the searched him, uncovering the spare magazine along with several knives, lock picks and bump keys, a garrote, two cell phones, money, some test tubes and tweezers, and a single-shot derringer. === A trap intended for him; but traps sometimes worked both ways. === Pendergast gave an almost convulsive shudder. “Challenge,” he repeated. “But of course.”