Cast the First Stone by K.J. Emrick & S. J. Wells

Author:K.J. Emrick & S. J. Wells [Emrick, K. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Coast Publishing

How to do surveillance, step one. Know where your target is going to be.

In this case my target is Katarina’s friend Carol, and I know exactly where she’s going to be. Barlow Michaelson’s apartment door, sometime around ten o’clock this morning.

Step two. Show up early.

I’ve done stakeouts where I have literally sat in my Mustang all night long, watching a door and waiting for someone to arrive. This time it’s a little easier because Carol probably won’t show up much before ten o’clock. She won’t want to risk showing up before Barlow is gone. Even so, I still make sure that I’m standing in Barlow’s apartment hallway by nine, just to be safe.

I haven’t told Barlow what I’m up to. The last thing I would need is him trying to confront Carol himself and scaring her off. Better that he just goes to work without knowing anything about this at all. I can tell him about it later, after Carol and I have had some time to talk, woman to woman.

Of course, step one and step two are a lot easier if you know what your target looks like. I don’t know the first thing about Carol. Is she tall? Short? Fat? Hispanic? Flat chested or more like Nikki Minaj? I simply don’t know.

On the other hand, I don’t have to. I knew exactly which door in this hallway she was going to go to. All I had to do was stand around and wait, keeping an eye on Barlow’s apartment door the whole time.

Which brings me to step three. Keep out of sight.

When you’re doing surveillance out on the street, that means sitting in your car until your target shows up, sometimes with a pair of binoculars depending on how far away you are. When you’re at a restaurant, that means ordering food, so you blend in with the other customers. If you’re at a sports event, you cheer for one team or the other.

Right now, I’m in a straight hallway of an apartment building that’s about a hundred times nicer than my own. There’s no place to hide. No way to blend in. I’m about as obvious standing here as a fox in a henhouse.

So to keep from being too conspicuous, I’m walking all the way down the hall to the door of the stairwell, and when I get there I turn around and go down the other way, past the elevators, to the door of the other stairwell. Back and forth, the whole time, without stopping. If anyone sees me, I’m just a visitor heading for the stairs. By the time ten o’clock gets close to rolling around, I’ve met my steps goal for the whole month.

At least my future-sense will give me a little warning if someone comes. So far, no one has.

Barlow’s apartment is in a pricey neighborhood not far from the Renaissance Center. Most of the residents are business professionals, near as I can figure, which means they’re all single and young and already gone for the day.

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