City of Windows--A Novel by Robert Pobi

Author:Robert Pobi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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FDR Drive

Whitaker pushed the SUV in the outside lane, using momentum to compensate for a loss of traction. Theoretically, they were in no rush, but Lucas now knew Whitaker well enough to understand that she only had one way of driving.

They were making better time than most of the other vehicles desperate enough to be out in this soup. Somebody in a blacked-out Porsche Cayenne had passed them about two miles back, and other than that one incongruous mental case, they were passing everyone. Whitaker had to go around a few people, and she had resorted to using her asshole lights a handful of times to convince the unobservant to move over. The dangers of passing were compounded by the trucks sitting in the middle lane, throwing up an icy wake that had all the give of a wooden fence.

She was changing lanes to overtake an eighteen-wheeler when the car phone rang, cutting into the ambient noise via the SUV’s Bluetooth system.

Lucas checked the clock on the dash: fourteen minutes since he had dropped his badge on Graves; this had to be Kehoe.

Whitaker thumbed a button on the steering wheel, her eyes locked on the shifting road and the optical illusions being conjured by the snow.

Kehoe’s disembodied voice came on in remarkably clear and calm Dolby THX. “Is Page with you?”

“Yeah.”

Kehoe went straight by the greetings with, “Nine-one-one got a call regarding your address twelve mikes ago. Something about armed intruders. A pair of NYPD cruisers are on the way, and I’ve sent a tactical team. ETA: six and a half mikes.”

Lucas felt the big V-8 growl as Whitaker pushed down on the gas and hit the disco switch, lighting up the claustrophobic world outside in a dancing red-and-white heartbeat.

Lucas tried not to scream.

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