Deluge by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Author:Stuart M. Kaminsky
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2007-05-22T06:00:00+00:00

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THE LIGHTS HAD BEEN turned off and the shades drawn in the classroom that had been the office/laboratory of Alvin Havel. Danny and Lindsay moved slowly, scanning the floor, tabletops, and desk with hand-held ALS devices.

“He took it with him,” said Lindsay.

“Or put it back,” said Danny.

“Back in the closet?”

“Back in the closet,” said Danny.

“Good news is they’re alive,” said Devlin, standing at the edge of the pit. “Bad news is it looks like it’s going to come sliding down on them sooner than we thought.”

“How soon?” asked Stella.

“Don’t know,” said Devlin, taking off his helmet and wiping his soot-darkened face with his sleeve. “Fifteen minutes. Maybe less.”

“What are you going to do?” Stella asked.

“I’m going to go down there and get them out.”

Stella wanted to say “no,” but she couldn’t. Hawkes was in that hole.

“The man who blew up this building is down there,” she said. “He may have a gun. I’m a detective. I should go.”

“Simple as that?”

“Simple as that.”

“What would you do when you got there?” he asked.

“Whatever you told me to do to get them out,” she said.

“No. You find killers and bombers. We go into burning buildings and flooded pits,” said Devlin, waving at another fireman across the rubble.

“You win. Be careful,” she said.

“I’m trained to be careful,” he said. “Want to hear a crazy and totally inappropriate question?”

“Why not?” she said.

The fireman Devlin had waved to was on his way, carrying an armload of equipment and a rope coiled over his shoulder.

“When this is over, will you have dinner with me?”

Stella smiled. “Save my partner,” she said. “Then we’ll talk.”

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