Dark Eyes by Richter William

Author:Richter, William [Richter, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781595146007
Google: cljexA2t8PYC
Amazon: B005GSYY4Y
Publisher: Razorbill
Published: 2012-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

It was just after eight in the morning when Klesko parked the stolen LeMans on 47th Street, just fifty feet east of the Hamlisch Brothers storefront. In the passenger seat, Tiger was about to get out of the car when the door to Hamlisch Brothers opened and a young man emerged from the shop, setting the alarm behind him and rolling down the metal security grate that covered the entire storefront. As the young man proceeded eastward along the sidewalk, he unconsciously tapped his right hand on the left side of his chest, indicating that there was something valuable in the lapel pocket of his simple black suit.

“This must be the young one,” Klesko said.

Tiger was concerned about Klesko’s mood. Though he had escaped any real injury, the episode at the Rainer woman’s office—the previous night—had left Klesko in a sullen, simmering rage. The fire that engulfed his pant legs had been more humiliating than anything else, but the outcome of the event was not at all what they had hoped for: the Rainer woman died before she could tell them anything about Yalena Mayakova’s whereabouts, and their pursuit of the unknown girl had ended with her mysterious disappearance into the night.

The failure of all this was not sitting well with Klesko, and Tiger knew that in this state of mind the man was capable of anything, even stupid eruptions of violence that might leave them exposed.

Their greatest hope for finding Yalena had been in finding either Benjamin Hatch or Charlene Rainer; now both of them were dead, and the Kleskos were no closer to finding their target. Their only potential lead was the young girl who they had found at Rainer’s office. Tiger and Klesko had no idea how she might fit into their search, but she was intriguing nonetheless. The girl was more capable and resourceful than a normal girl of her age—as demonstrated when she set Klesko on fire and then vanished without a trace—and there was the sense, on Tiger’s part anyway, that the girl was familiar in a way that he could not quite explain.

Did the girl have some connection to Yalena Mayakova? Tiger and Klesko did not know yet, but one possible source of information was Isaac Hamlisch, the young diamond merchant who had been gone on a buying trip to Europe when the Kleskos first visited his shop. It was Hamlisch who had listed the alexandrite stone on the international market—only two weeks ago, but to Tiger it felt much longer—and he could reveal the identity of the person who had brought him the stone. Now Hamlisch was back in New York, and walking alone on 47th Street toward the Diamond Buyers Club, one block away.

Tiger stepped out of the car and followed Hamlisch as Klesko started the engine of the car and pulled out into the street, which had almost no traffic at that hour. Once Klesko had pulled the car even with the young merchant, Tiger moved swiftly; he pushed up against young Hamlisch from behind, sticking the barrel of his gun into the man’s ribs.

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