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Eraser
A novel by ROBERT TINE
Based on a screenplay by
TONY PURYEAR and WALON GREEN
and the story by
TONY PURYEAR and WALON GREEN
and MICHAEL S. C H E R N U C H I N
Level 3
Retold by by Brent Furnas
Series Editor: Derek Strange
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CHAPTER ONE
Royal Oak, Michigan, is an ordinary town in the middle of
America. People like to live there because it is quiet, clean and
safe. But on that summer night something terrible was happening
in a comfortable house on Alden Drive.
Johnny Casteleone looked at the two men who were holding
his wife down onto the floor, then he looked up at his old friend,
Pauley Cutrone. 'Don't hurt Darlene,'Johnny said. 'She doesn't
know anything.'
'She knows you,' said Pauley. 'And that's bad enough.'
Johnny tried to get up off the floor, but couldn't. Pauley and
the other man who held him were too strong.
'Why are you doing this, Pauley?' asked Johnny. 'We were
friends.'
Pauley hit him hard on the mouth. 'Yeah, we were friends,'
he said. 'That's why Mr Canelli is angry. You talked. You were
a
witness
against us. You told the police everything. You know
the rule about that.'
There was a knife in Pauley's hand. Johnny knew the rule -
if you were in the Mafia* and you talked, you died.
'Just do it quickly,' said Johnny.
'Okay,' said Pauley with a terrible smile. 'But first, open your
mouth. I need your tongue. Mr Canelli wants to see if it will
talk without you.'
Pauley pulled Johnny's teeth open and took his tongue in his
fingers. He didn't see The Man in Black come into the room
behind him. He never saw the hand that killed him - he just fell
over dead, his neck broken. The other criminals looked up in
* The Mafia is a secret group of criminals. The first Mafia was in Sicily. It
then went to the USA. There are now many Mafias in different countries all
over the world.
surprise, but before they could do anything, The Man in Black
was on them. He held a gun but he didn't use it; his hands were
his
•weapons.
Seconds later, they were dead too.
The Man in Black looked at Johnny and Darlene. He was tall
and strong but his eyes were as cold as ice. 'Wait here,' he said
and went out the door. A minute later he returned. Over each
shoulder he carried a dead body — one was a man, the other was
a •woman.
'Who are they?' asked Darlene.
'You,' said The Man in Black. 'Johnny Casteleone and Darlene
are dead. Now put your clothes on them. Take off your rings
and watches and put them on the bodies too. The police will
think that you fought the criminals and that you all died at the
same time.'
Johnny and Darlene hurried to do what he told them.
The Man in Black took a telephone out of his pocket. 'Hello,
police?' he said. There's been a murder at 2322 Alden Drive,
Royal Oak. Hurry.'
When Johnny and Darlene finished dressing the bodies with
their clothes, The Man in Black said, 'Outside. Let's go.'
Johnny and Darlene hurried toward the door. The Man in
Black took something out of his pocket and threw it in the corner
of the room. There was an
explosion
and then the house was
burning.
They got in a car. The Man in Black drove quickly. 'You
made a mistake, Johnny,' he said. 'You went to a restaurant in
your old neighborhood. That was stupid.'
'Yeah, I went to Gennaro's.'
'What, Johnny?' said Darlene. 'You went back to Gennaro's.
That was
really
stupid!'
'Okay, I was stupid. I'm sorry. I like the food there.'
'Yeah, but Canelli saw you there,' said The Man in Black.
His eyes were angry. 'Next time you make a mistake, you're
dead. Understand?'
'Yeah, yeah, I understand,' said Johnny.
The Man in Black looked at Johnny and Darlene. He was tall
and strong but his eyes were as cold as ice.
The Man in Black stopped the car by a river.
'Out,' he said.
They all got out and The Man in Black pushed the car into
the river. It disappeared under the water.
Another car stopped and three men got out and started walking
toward them.
'Who are these guys?' asked Johnny.
'They're police,' said The Man in Black. 'They work for
Witness
Protection
- we call it WIT SEC. They'll give you
and Darlene new names and a new house. Just don't make any
more stupid mistakes, okay?' He turned and walked away.
'Hey!' Johnny called after him. 'I want to thank you. If you
ever need anything, you come and see me.'
The Man in Black never looked back. One of the WIT SEC
men put his hand on Johnny's shoulder and said, 'Smile, Johnny.
He just erased you.'
Samaritan laughed. 'Yeah. I was a good teacher. Oh, Beller
wants to see you.'
'About those bodies?'
'No,' said Samaritan. 'I didn't tell him about that.'
'Thanks,' said Eraser. Til go see him now.'
Arthur Beller did not know how to shoot a gun, yet he was the
most important man at WIT SEC - he was the boss. When
Eraser walked into his office, Beller handed him a photograph
of a beautiful young woman.
'Take a look at your new witness,' said Beller.
'Who is she?' asked Eraser.
'Her name is Lee Cullen. She works at the Cyrex Corporation.'
'Cyrex?' asked Eraser. 'They make weapons, don't they?'
'Yes,' said Beller. 'They make new and dangerous weapons
for the United States
government
and
only
for the United States
government. But someone at Cyrex is selling weapons to other
people.'
'To what people? In another country?'
'We don't know,' Beller answered. 'Maybe another country,
maybe the Mafia. We
do
know that it's
treason.
Miss Cullen is
the witness. She's going to give
evidence
against her boss and
against important men in the government. People will try to stop
her.'
'Where is she now?'
'At the Cyrex building.'
Eraser looked surprised. 'At the Cyrex building? Isn't that
dangerous?'
'Yes, but the FBI wants her to get more evidence before we
move her out.'
Eraser looked at the photograph again. At the bottom it said,
'WITNESS 415. ERASE.'
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CHAPTER TWO
The Man in Black walked into an office building in Washington,
D.C. It was an ordinary-looking building but inside it were the
WIT SEC offices. The Man in Black's name was John Krueger,
but most of the people who worked at WIT SEC called
him Eraser. A big, friendly-looking man working at a desk
looked up at Eraser and said, 'I heard you had a busy night last
night.'
Eraser smiled. His friend's name was Robert Deguerin but
people called him Samaritan. He was older than Eraser and he
once taught Eraser how t o b e a W I T S E C man.
'Yeah,' said Eraser. 'A witness did something stupid and I had
to erase him.'
'I heard that you stole two bodies from the hospital. Do you
think that was wise?'
'It's something you taught me. Remember?'

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