Vanish Sixteen Tuesday, September 8, 7 AM: Just seven days to go. I awake in my apartment in New Orleans, relieved to find no online indication of anyone wise to my location. Aside from a few random new followers to my Twitter feed, all of whom seem like automated bots, nobody seems to be paying attention to my fake accounts either. I use a gift card to book a flight to New York City on September 15, the final day of my disappearance, and hatch plans to surprise Thompson in his office using a fake security badge. Now Wired has decided to up the stakes, offering me $400 for each of a series of challenges I complete. The first two challenges — clues to which are embedded, with the help of Will Shortz and Lone Shark Games, for the hunters to find in the New York Times crossword puzzle — are to go to the 50th story of a building and to attend a book reading. “Well, I’ve lost mine. In two minutes, I’m on the 50th floor, video camera rolling. Leach sends a text message to Fillinger. On the Lam
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