Castle in the Air by Donald E Westlake

Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: caper, crime, mystery
ISBN: 9780449243824
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1981-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

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Were they going to miss Avenue de Wagram again? "Jacques!" yelled the driver of the second truck, in useless rage and frustration. "Jacques, Jacques, what's the matter with you?" And the driver was just starting to accelerate, determined to come up on Jacques' left and remonstrate with him via the medium of obscene hand gestures, when all at once, directly in his path, a wobbly girl on a bicycle crashed into a doddering old man in a motorized wheelchair. The whole kaboodle collapsed virtually under his wheels, and the shocked driver stood on the air brakes, so that the truck, with every wheel locked, did two heavy, loud, bone-jarring bunny hops forward and came to an abrupt stop.

Ignoring the shrieks of horns and squeals of metal scraping metal from behind the truck, and unaware of the white Renault stopping on the right side of his truck just long enough to disgorge a passenger-Angelo-the driver opened his door and leaned out to see if the girl and old man were still both sufficiently alive to be yelled at. They were; in fact, both seemed to have been revitalized by their mishap, since the motorized wheelchair was suddenly zipping away like a LeMans racer and the girl on the bicycle had abruptly learned everything about balance and speed, to judge by the manner in which she was hastening away. The driver released the open door in order to shake a fist at the departing miscreants, but all at once he found himself in midair. Someone-Angelo, in fact-had entered his truck cab from the right, and had given him a huge shove.

Truckdrivers were not meant by God to be airborne; at least not for long. This one soon found himself earthbound again, in a discouragingly hard and abrupt manner, and as he rolled over, shocked and disoriented, he discovered that his head was down amid a lot of automobile tires. Moving automobile tires.

Oh, no. Up he jumped, and looked around, and his truck was moving away!

"Hi! Hi!"

The former driver of the departing truck started to run after his machine, and was promptly nearly run down by a black Volkswagen convertible beetle. Then the damn Volkswagen continued to block him, because the driver insisted on stopping and making no-doubt-disparaging remarks to the former-truckdriver-now-pedestrian in German. The last straw, a German.

And his truck was gone.

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