Crisis by Frank Gardner

Author:Frank Gardner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781473526440
Publisher: Transworld
Published: 2016-06-01T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 49

‘ONE MORE FOR the road, Jack?’ The barmaid leaned across and tapped old Jack Hammill’s arm. He seemed to have gone to sleep where he sat.

‘Dreckley,’ he replied, using the Cornish equivalent of ‘Soon, but not just yet’.

‘Wozza madder withee?’ she continued. ‘You used to be the life and soul, you did. Now look at yers.’

‘I’m getting old, that’s what,’ said the retired policeman, and shuffled off to answer the call of nature. Occupied. ‘Bugger that,’ he muttered, pushed open the door of the Halzephron Inn and tottered out into the night. The wind came barrelling in off the Atlantic waves below and caught him full in the face. For a moment he stood there, rocking gently, then walked on down the hill to find a bush.

‘That’s odd,’ he muttered to himself, as he fumbled with his zip in the dark. He could swear lights were flashing dimly down on Gunwalloe Cove. Who would want to be out on Porthleven Sands on this kind of a night? Probably some young surfers, stoned out of their minds, he reckoned, camping in the storm for a dare. Stupid bloody grockles. Might check up on them in the morning. Jack had hung up his uniform years ago but in his heart he had never stopped being a copper.

For the five men working in the dark in the bleak, windswept cove, it was lucky that nobody other than Jack Hammill noticed them. When he toddled back into the bar, a few tell-tale dark splashes showing on his trousers, nobody paid him too much attention. Even if he had got within earshot of the men, Jack would not have understood a word they were saying, because they were talking in low, hoarse whispers, speaking the language of the red-brick Colombian barrios. The cartel’s men were working against the clock to bring something ashore in secret. They knew that everything, even the lives of their families in Colombia, depended on their getting the job done and disappearing before anyone saw them.

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