15 - Firestorm by Iris Johansen

Author:Iris Johansen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Women Detectives, Detective and Mystery Stories, Psychological Fiction, Arson, Serial Murders, Mystery & Detective, Fire, Arson Investigation, Psychopaths, Women Private Investigators, Crime, Psychological, Mentally Ill, Mystery Fiction, Women Sleuths, Thrillers, Suspense, Fiction, Women
ISBN: 9780553586497
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2004-03-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10.

I've been having complaints about you, Dickens." Ki Yong's voice was silky soft. "Trask isn't pleased with you."

Dickens's hand tightened on his phone. "Then get someone else to do his dirty work. I don't like the idea of risking my neck to please that crazy son of a bitch."

"You think he's crazy?"

"What do you think?"

There was a silence at the other end of the line. "You may be right. I've noticed signs of instability. But it's of no importance as long as he's kept under control. That's why I have loyal men like you to keep an eye on him."

"They'll catch him. He takes too many chances. He doesn't give a damn about the risk as long as he makes his kill."

"He's very clever. He has a chance of doing what he wants and surviving."

"How many kills? He's lost focus. He took me off Raztov and put me on Kerry Murphy. And then last night he told me to scout around the wharf district for a deserted warehouse."

"Indeed? How curious. I wonder what he could be planning."

"Whatever it is, he doesn't give a damn whether I get stung."

"I'm sure you're wrong. You know too much. He wouldn't want you caught." He paused. "How much do you know, Dickens? Have you found out where we can find Trask?"

"How could I do that?" Dickens didn't try to hide the frustration in his voice. "When he wants to see me, he doesn't let me know until thirty or forty minutes before the meeting, and it's always a different place. Most of the time he communicates by phone. He's damn careful."

"There must be some way to do it. If you could arrange a meeting with him on some pretext, I would be very grateful. And you would become very rich."

"You've told me that before. He won't go for it."

"Continue to try. The ideal situation would be to have him willing and cooperative, but I don't want him caught by the authorities. The simplest way to prevent that from happening is to take him off the scene."

"Before he makes his kills?"

"I don't care about his revenge. I care about plucking the prize he's holding under my nose. I can do that if I can catch him."

Dickens was sure Ki Yong could. In his dealings with the North Korean, he had always found him to be a cold-blooded son of a bitch. He could almost pity Trask if Ki Yong ever got the upper hand.

Almost.

"I'll do the best I can." He was silent a moment. "He's got a bug in his ass about Kerry Murphy. I might be able to use her to get to him."

"Kerry Murphy… " Dickens could almost hear the wheels turning in Ki Yong's mind as he went over everything Dickens had reported to him on the woman. "It's possible, I suppose. But there's really no revenge factor involved. Would there be enough emotion involved to spur him to an indiscretion?"

"How the hell do I know? But he took me off Raztov.

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