Death Run by Jack Higgins & Justin Richards - Rich & Jade 02 - Death Run

Author:Jack Higgins & Justin Richards - Rich & Jade 02 - Death Run [Higgins, Jack & Richards, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult
ISBN: 9780007281992
Google: OyrsChbqWQAC
Amazon: B005DIBE3Q
Barnesnoble: B005DIBE3Q
Goodreads: 10315877
Publisher: Speak
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

15

Jade insisted on returning to London with her dad and Ardman. Neither of them tried to talk her out of it. She and Dad went back to the cottage to collect overnight bags. They both knew they’d be staying in London until they got news of Rich.

Jade shoved clothes into a rucksack, not paying much attention to what she was grabbing. She changed quickly out of her school uniform and pulled on jeans and a sweatshirt. After a moment’s thought, she put on the necklace that Ralph had given her in Venice. A memory of recent adventures with Rich. Of being together. She tucked the delicate glass beads out of sight inside the sweatshirt collar.

Ardman gave them a lift. He drove efficiently and quickly, on the hands-free phone almost constantly while Jade and Dad sat in the back and talked quietly. It was after midnight now and the roads were quiet.

Jade told him what had happened, as well as she could remember. Anything might be a clue, Dad had told her – any tiny detail seen or words overheard.

As they reached the outskirts of London, Ardman leaned back and said loudly to them, “Apparently, we have a lead.”

“The helicopters?” Chance asked.

“No. One of the gunmen. Seems they left him behind. Unconscious. In a cupboard.” He glanced back, a wry smile on his face. “You know anything about that, Jade?”

Goddard was a tall thin man with a drooping moustache. “I put him in the holding cell,” he told Ardman. “But he’s a tough one. You won’t get anything out of him easily.”

“I’m sure we’ll manage.” Ardman was at his desk. Jade and Chance sat in armchairs nearby, all of them sipping hot coffee. It was a large office in a Regency building, and furnished in keeping with its age – apart from the computer screen and telephone on the desk. “Who knows he is here?” Ardman asked Goddard.

“Well, the local coppers know we took him. No one else, so far as I know. Apart from the medic who stitched him up. Oh and we’ve got a cover story out for the school.”

“Saying what?” Jade wondered.

“Vandals – they broke in, trashed the place and tried to set fire to it. Lucky the local cops turned up and sorted them out before they could do any more damage, eh?”

“Yeah. Lucky.”

“Tell me about the gunman,” Chance said.

“Well, he’s British and he’s not talking. Don’t know much more than that. Running his fingerprints, DNA and face through the systems. If he’s sneezed in the wrong place, we’ll get a match. We’ll soon know who he is.”

“But that won’t tell us where they took Rich,” Jade said. The whole thing seemed pointless. “Can’t you make him tell us?”

“There are rules,” her father said.

“There are indeed,” Ardman agreed. “But I think this may be one of those occasions where we are justified in bending them.”

“You’re not going to torture him?” Jade said, horrified.

“Of course not. What do you think, John?”

Dad was looking grim. “This is a job for the Professor.

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