Blood Money by Julian Page

Author:Julian Page
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784627737
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

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Sunday 1st May

May Day has long been associated with socialism and the working class. More recently, in the heart of the City of London it’s a day that’s become synonymous with rioting and anti-capitalist demonstrations. Because of this, a high visibility police presence will be out in force in the square mile today. Squads of officers wearing fluorescent yellow jackets including mounted police will be concentrating their numbers on the streets close to the Bank of England and Mansion House. The Metropolitan Police, City of London Police and British Transport Police will combine to put around 4,000 officers on duty to patrol today’s events and the overtime this will bring-in for the lads down at Bishopsgate will prove very welcome. And although a couple of officers will remain at the station to coordinate and communicate with the front-line troops, Bishopsgate ‘nick’ will otherwise be deserted.

Gibson is now satisfied that the bug found inside his flat proves (to himself at least) that Kronos are involved in illegal activities so lucrative that they’re prepared to vigorously and violently protect them. It seems likely that Rebecca (and now he himself) aren’t going to be the only ones under surveillance, however the total extent and complexity of Kronos’s intelligence network is unknowable. They’ve got deep enough pockets to keep several people under observation at any one time and so it figures they may also have a string of informants on the payroll too. Under the circumstances it’s best for John to believe that Kronos have eyes and ears everywhere.

Like an insect walking through a spider’s web, he needs to proceed with extreme caution. The slightest wrong move might unwittingly send Kronos a signal that could trigger an aggressive and lethal response from the very same man who’d slain Rebecca.

Having already racked his brains to remember everything said in the flat since the bug had been planted John’s now pretty certain that the eavesdropper must have known that he was policeman even before murdering Rebecca. And that just proves how confident the killer had been in his own abilities. Could that confidence stretch to killing her policeman boyfriend as well? Surely not…two people in the same flat, murdered in separate incidents just days apart…the odds against such deaths being unconnected would be astronomical. The police would react as if a serial killer were at large and they’d throw enormous resources into catching the assassin. Would a professional hit-man take such a risk? Would he be brazen enough to kill a serving police officer? John shudders to even think such thoughts, but if Slater really is ‘that good’ then maybe he’d believe he could get away with it. Perhaps if he picked the time and the place and made it look like a cast-iron accident, a suicide perhaps…

Was he really contemplating taking on such ruthless and well-resourced people?

But what is the alternative? To sit in his apartment, paralyzed by fear? Could he bear to live a lie for the rest of his life by kidding himself

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