Diamond Run by Michael Croucher

Author:Michael Croucher [Croucher, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Organized crime, ghosts, Crime thriller
ISBN: 9781386663874
Publisher: Michael Croucher
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Ernie picked me up at Sue’s and took me back to the motel. Just as we arrived, there was a message that Roy Jacobs wanted me to call him at home, and another that Charles had called the Hamilton PD dispatch contact. The baby shower was held at Gulliver’s Roadhouse in St. Catherines. Sue had already left the location.

Most of our team were out on observation points near Sue’s house, but two Mobile Support guys, recovering from a double shift, were napping in the room we used for meetings. One of them was on a chair and the other on a bed. They were scheduled to be going back out at three a.m. The one in the chair woke up. I shook the other guy awake. They got their gear together as they listened.

“Sue is late, real late,” I said. “I want you to take separate cars and head towards St. Catherines. Check out her usual routes. Look for anything out of place, and stay in touch through the Metro dispatcher. You might lose range on the handsets, except with each other. One of you has a Metro radio, right?”

“I do, Phil.” It was the guy I’d woken up.

Both of these men were experienced in supporting high-risk takedowns, and with the one having a police-band, extra help could be called in if needed.

“One of you check out the Brock campus for her car on the way down, the other go to the location of the baby shower. It’s a place called Gulliver’s Roadhouse. If you see her, stop her and call me. If you don’t find her, advise us, then head back to this area. Keep rolling when you get here, stay within handset range.”

I made a call to Charles next. He answered immediately.

“Charles, Sue hasn’t arrived at her house, is there any way you can find out what time that baby shower broke up? It’s really important.”

“Give me a few minutes.”

I gave him the room phone number. I stewed about Sue as I waited. I couldn’t believe we hadn’t found Marco yet. This guy was the most elusive bastard I’d ever worked on. Even a visual on him would enable us to set up a tail. As it was, we sat on our asses waiting for him to trip over us.

Sue was somewhere out there. Christ...where was she? My throat tightened, my hands trembled. I slammed my fist down on the little desk. I hated the waiting. Most of all, I hated the procession of dark thoughts.

The phone rang. It was Charles.

“That shower was pretty well over by eight. Apparently, a few of them hung around for a while, maybe Sue was one of them.”

Either way, Sue should have been home by now. I heard the concern in Charles’s voice, and sensed an implied and obvious question. I’m glad he didn’t ask it. My answer would have sounded really lame.

I gave him something to do. “Charles, check with every one of her friends, just in case she went to one of their places for some reason.

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