D “Sir?” he said. “May I come in?” “Of course you can come in. This isn’t my apartment. It’s a crime scene.” Andropoulos blushed and stepped inside. He was carrying a folder filled with information about the victims. “I have the background that you ...
He had forgotten to put the sunshade in the windshield when he had parked the Hummer, and now he would be forced to suffer. A wall of heat greeted him like a dragon’s sneeze. In many ways it reminded him of his days at the mill. Working near the blast furnaces in the dead of summer. Sweating so m...
With enough time and money, he knew anyone could be bought and anything could be accomplished. Yet as Hakeem Salaam watched the hajj proceedings on Saudi television, he still fretted over the details. Like a coach who was watching the big game from afar. ...
The concussive force of the explosion had thrown him against the wall of the bunker. That much he remembered. The painful dizziness and the trickle of warmth he felt rolling down his face told him that his head had taken the brunt of the impact – and that the stone had proven harder than his skul...
Most of the time the order went: fire, smoke, alarm, then sprinkler. But not today. He wondered why that was and if it was important. ‘The alarm should be on,’ Ulster assured him. ‘Both here and at the firehouse in Biasca… It must’ve malfunctioned.’ Somehow Payne doubted t...