Blood Hunt: A Novel (Jack Harvey) by Rankin Ian

Author:Rankin, Ian [Rankin, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: FIC022000
ISBN: 9780316023573
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2006-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

PART FIVE

BIRDY

FOURTEEN

REEVE TRIED TO EAT the proffered breakfast on the plane but found he had no appetite. Instead he asked for an extra orange juice, and then for another after that. Heathrow was busier than Orly had been, but he still couldn’t spot anyone waiting for him. He went down to the Tube station and made the call from the telephones there.

“Hello?” a voice answered.

Reeve waited.

“Hello?”

“Hello, Jay,” he said.

“I think you must have a wrong number.”

“Oh?”

There was a long pause at the other end. Reeve watched the units on his card click away. The voice came back on.

“Hey, Philosopher, is that you?”

“Yes.”

“What’s new, pal?”

Like they’d spoken only last week and had parted the best of friends. Like Jay wasn’t in charge of a band of mercenaries with orders to hunt Reeve down and terminate him. Like they were having a conversation.

“I thought you were dead,” Reeve stated.

“You mean you wish I was.”

“Every day,” Reeve said quietly.

Jay laughed. “Where are you, pal?”

“I’m at Orly.”

“Yeah? Then you must have met Mickey.”

“He gave me your number.”

“I hope he charged you for it.”

“No, I charged him.”

“Well, I knew you’d be tough, Gordon.”

“You don’t know how tough. Tell your paymasters that. Tell them I’m taking this personally. Not a job, not a mission, just personal.”

“Gordon, you’re not really at Orly are you? Don’t make me run all the way out there.”

“Maybe we’ll talk again.”

“I don’t think so, Philosopher.”

And Jay put the phone down first.

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