Day of Atonement by Archer Alex

Author:Archer, Alex [Archer, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2015-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Roux was itching to get out of the hotel room.

He was wasting far too much of his life in places like this, walking up and down a cramped room little bigger than a prison cell, even if it was better furnished.

The cameraman hadn’t shed any more light on Annja’s whereabouts, and Garin’s call was worrying away at him. There was more going on here than he was seeing. He clenched his fist and unclenched it, but the exercise did nothing for the frustration he felt building. He needed to do something. He couldn’t waste the day just waiting.

Roux grabbed his coat and headed out, checking his phone instinctively before he slipped it into his pocket. The caller ID was empty. No calls. No messages. No texts. No Annja.

He obtained a city map from the rack in reception and stepped out into the street, feeling the icy air hit his lungs as traffic swarmed past.

He took a minute to pick the best route to the cathedral and struck out, folding the map and slipping it into his pocket as he walked.

It felt good to be moving after being cooped up inside.

There was every likelihood that he was being watched. Cauchon knew too much about Roux not to have eyes and ears on him. Let the man watch. Let his spies report back. He wasn’t going to hide from him in some hotel room. Now he was going to take the fight to the mystery man. It would help to know the underlying cause behind Cauchon’s obsession with him, which had to have something to do with the papers Garin had stolen from his vault and the papers that had been liberated from the museum here.

While he wasn’t sure exactly which journal was missing, he knew the time of its writing, and that it tracked back to the death of Joan. He didn’t know the documents word for word, but was familiar with almost all of the secrets they contained, because they were his secrets. He had been there. He had lived through those dark days. If Cauchon had even the vaguest concept of the secrets he’d managed to procure, he could be a very dangerous opponent.

Roux used shop windows and car windshields to see if anyone was following, deliberately doubling back to retrace his steps and move counterintuitively against the flow of bodies, always checking the reflections to see if anyone followed him. To the casual observer his actions might have appeared erratic and more than a little strange, but Roux didn’t care about that. He wanted to flush out his tail. Get them to show themselves, to make a mistake. He’d happily face anyone head-on. He’d had showdowns before, even gone up against ArmaLites and AK-47s with nothing but his bare hands, and come out alive. And if he got to take one of them down, put a few questions to Cauchon bare-knuckle-style, then he’d happily take the opportunity to get a little exercise and learn more about this incarnation of the man.

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