The Button Man: A Hugo Marston Novel - Plot & Excerpts
A sense of unease settled in long before that, almost as soon as he’d sat down and ordered coffee, a feeling that quickly grew into frustration and then annoyance. He checked his watch every two minutes, resisting the urge to do it more often, his eyes locked on the front of Pendrith’s building, breaking away only to scour the sidewalk. The obvious conclusion was that he’d been duped. Easily too, although at the time he’d not had much option other than to go along with Pendrith’s arrangement. But duped nonetheless. When it became clear that Pendrith wasn’t showing, there was only one thing for Hugo to do. He paid his tab at the café for the second time and crossed the busy Rue Monge to Pendrith’s apartment building. Two stone steps led up to the double front doors, and twelve buttons to the right of the doors connected the outside world with those inside. He noted that Pendrith’s name was not listed and all the names were French. He started pressing buttons, and whoever lived behind the eighth one let him in without any questions.
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