She smothered the phone with her hand and answered without checking the incoming number. It was four o’clock in the morning.“Hello? Who is it?”“It’s Flip.”“Flip, it’s awfully early to be calling me.”“I got to talk to you.”Cristina sat up in bed. With one ear she listened out for the sound of Fred...
Kelly opened one eye first and then the other, but slowly; his head felt swollen on the inside and even the flesh behind his eye sockets was sore. He felt cool concrete beneath him and sore muscles from sleep without comfort. Kelly was on the floor. His head lay half benea...
Carlos and Pablo and Álvaro were there, and Álvaro had brought his son, Ulises. Ulises was good and young and full of fire. Echave had considered him for the team meant to kill Matt Clifford but had decided at the last moment to hold him back. Given the way things had gone, he was glad of that ch...