Assume Nothing by Gar Anthony Haywood

Author:Gar Anthony Haywood [Haywood, Gar Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2011-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

Cross could see Reddick was all done talking, but Cross went on talking anyway, finally understanding the full extent of the danger he was in.

‘If you know as much about us as you say you do, you must know what we’re worth. What we could pay you to let us go and just forget about all this.’

‘Shut up, Cross,’ Reddick said, and this time there was no questioning his sincerity.

Cross took the hint and fell silent, putting his mind to work immediately on the problem at hand. A smarter man than Andy Baumhower, he didn’t need Reddick to tell him what he had to lose by trying something foolish. He knew Reddick could make his death either quick and painless, or slow and agonizing, and between the two, Cross had a definite preference. But that wasn’t his only reason to be cooperative. There was also hope; the possibility, however remote, that between now and the time Will Sinnott and Ben Clarke arrived at the condo, something for Reddick would go wrong. He’d make a mistake or lose his nerve, or Clarke would take the initiative and do something reckless to disarm him.

Reddick sat there eyeing Cross with mild amusement, reading his mind as easily as he might were he actually inside it. Cross was neither a hero nor a fool; he would wait things out and see what developed. Still, Reddick knew, he bore watching. Pragmatist or no, the closer a man came to the hour of his own death, the more likely he was to try anything – anything – to save his skin.

Reddick expected this to be especially true of Clarke. The big man was the first to heed Cross’s call, roughly twenty minutes after receiving it. Reddick and Cross went to answer his knock at the door together, Reddick hiding behind it until Clarke had stepped across the threshold and into the spider’s web. Reddick gave him a split second to see what was coming, just to twist the knife a little, then greeted him the same way he had greeted Reddick at Dana’s two days before, with a blow to the head that carried the weight of an oil tanker. Or so it must have seemed to Clarke, having been hit with the two-fold force of the heel of Reddick’s gun and the thirst for Clarke’s blood Reddick had been choking on since the two had last met.

Your boy over there breathes a word about the accident to anybody, you’re all dead.

Clarke crumbled to the floor like a windblown house of cards, Cross stepping out of the way to let gravity do with him what it would. His face came to earth first and the rest followed, his landing making a sound not unlike a baby grand falling off the back of a speeding truck. He blinked once or twice, not fully out, and Reddick helped him along with a kick to the jaw that left him drooling blood and teeth all over Cross’s carpet. That

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