Deadly in New York by Randy Wayne White

Author:Randy Wayne White
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504024532
Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

sixteen

London

From a sound sleep, Hendricks sat bolt upright in bed. His heart was pounding, and he didn’t know why.

He listened carefully, staring hard into the darkness. Outside, rain fell against the window in a steady drizzle. There was the distant hiss of traffic in the streets as late travelers hurried through the cavern of London Town.

Hendricks threw back the covers and switched on the table lamp. His pocket watch had been placed neatly on the vanity along with his billfold, a brush, and a lethal-looking Walther PPK.

Hendricks looked at the watch.

Forty minutes after six in the morning.

What in the hell had woken him?

Disturbed by the strange anxiety that now flooded him, Hendricks picked up the cold weight of the automatic and began a methodical search of his room.

He was barefoot and wore gray pajamas.

All the closets were empty, the door to the hallway locked and chained.

Hendricks ran a hand through his close-cropped hair and sat back on the bed. Something was wrong, but what?

His old military atlas was on the desk. Absently he picked it up and began to leaf through it.

Earlier that evening, he had used it to ascertain the location of Loughros Moor, Northern Ireland.

Now he found himself irresistibly drawn to the maps of the Indian subcontinent.

Tibrikot? Ring Mo? Crystal Mountain?

Why should villages in the Himalayas suddenly be of such intense interest?

Hendricks immediately thought of Jacob Hayes. Hayes had studied there—but how could that account for his unreasonable urge to review the atlas?

He placed the Walther back on the desk. He stared at the phone. For some reason, he felt he should try to contact Hayes. It was a strong, almost overpowering urge. But it would be nearly 2 A.M. in Grand Cayman.

Hayes would think he was crazy.

Feeling strange and silly, Hendricks reluctantly climbed back into bed and switched off the lamp.

He had nearly an hour before he had to get up.

And the ferry ship to Dublin rarely left on time anyway.

He decided he would call Hayes before he left for Ireland.

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