Bruno by Dean Koontz

Author:Dean Koontz [Koontz, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B00266MLDA
Publisher: Fantasy & Science Fiction
Published: 1970-12-31T06:00:00+00:00

A sign above the door claimed OFFICE, and another on the door itself insisted

EMPLOYEES ONLY. It was half open, and I walked through as though I belonged

there, keeping a hand in my jacket pocket where I had the pistol. There

were several rooms back here, al leading off a short hal , al the doors

closed. I rapped on the first one, and when a woman said,

"Yes?" I opened it

and checked out the room. She was a stacked redhead in a leotard, doing

bal et steps in front of a mirror to the sounds - now - of Megadeth. Ten

chairs were lined up against the wal s around the room, and in each chair sat

a different ventriloquist dummy. Some held bananas in their wooden hands. I

didn't want to know any more about it. "Sorry," I said. "Wrong room." I closed the door and went to the one across the hal .

Graham Stone was

there. He stood by the desk, watching me with those cold eyes.

I stepped

inside, closed the door, and took the Smith & Wesson out of my pocket to be

certain that he understood the situation. "Stand real stil ," I said.

He

didn't move, and he didn't answer me. When I started toward him, however, he

sidestepped. I cocked the .38, but it didn't grab his attention like it should

have. He watched disinterestedly. I walked forward again, and he moved

again. I'd had the word from Bruno that a bring-him-back-alive clause was not

a condition of my employment contract. In fact, the bear had implied that any

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