Deadly Pursuit by Ann Christopher

Author:Ann Christopher
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780758269232
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-05-17T22:00:00+00:00

So this was a safe house.

Safe was, Amara supposed, a relative term.

Her house back in Mount Adams was beautiful, with flower boxes in the spring, matching colors and textures, and accent pieces with the furniture, but it was right on the corner of a tiny intersection and had flimsy locks and was not, therefore, safe.

The safe house of her imagination was an impenetrable fortress carved into the side of a mountain that was accessible only by a three-day journey by four-wheel drive SUV and then by helicopter. It had bulletproof windows, security cameras that covered every inch of the house, retinal scans for entrance from one room to the next, massive guards who had all been Navy SEALs in a former life, and roving packs of Dobermans—no, pit bulls—that were trained to kill intruders on sight. That was the ultimate in safety.

This house was … somewhere in between.

No cameras, no dogs, no bulletproof windows. They didn’t look bulletproof, anyway, but what did she know? It was just a plain old house, two-story brick traditional with three bedrooms and two baths, about thirty years old, on about an acre of land at the end of a lane.

That was it.

Well, and the guards. Two inside and two outside. There’d apparently been some discussion of putting two more in a surveillance van down the street, just in case, but they didn’t have the money or manpower to spare for that.

The four guards were DEA agents who’d either drawn the short straw to get put on the safe house protection task force or were on some sort of grievous punishment for past misdeeds. This gig couldn’t be on the list of most coveted assignments for anyone, even the local traffic cop.

Jack was out and about in the world doing God-knew-what sort of DEA secret agent business. He’d left earlier and she’d watched him go, feeling forlorn and all but pressing her hands and nose to the nonbulletproof windows and wishing she could go with him.

Because Jack was her only link to anything approaching normalcy. With him, it was easier to convince herself that everything was under control. Without him, she was scared to death.

The irony of the situation didn’t escape her. You’d think she’d have a little more backbone by now, but no. Despite all the alleged criminals she’d represented over the years (and who was she kidding with the alleged part? Most of her clients had been guilty of the crimes they’d been arrested for and at least a dozen others for which they’d managed to fly under the radar), she was a coward at heart.

She’d never been in the military. Never handled a gun. Never feared for her physical safety, unless she counted the five or six times growing up when she’d had to defend herself against her mother’s johns when they’d looked at her with a little too much interest and she’d locked herself in the second bedroom of their tiny apartment.

They were dealing with a hired killer financed by a vengeful drug kingpin.

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