Exile_The Explosive New Action Thriller From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author of Nomad James Swallow by James Swallow

Author:James Swallow [Swallow, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1785760440
Amazon: 1785760440
Publisher: Zaffre
Published: 2017-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

‘I bet you dreamed about this, right?’ Lucy let a mocking lilt enter her voice. ‘Night after night, in that six-by-nine where the CIA put you?’ She licked her lips provocatively. ‘Is it going how you thought it would?’

Amarah scowled, infuriated by her tone. ‘I will silence you.’

She knew his type down to the last detail, the kind who believed women were for beating or for using, who wrapped up their ignorance and cruelty with words like ‘values’ and ‘honour’ to conceal the fact that they were just bastards. Colour, creed or religion didn’t factor into it. Some men just hated.

And that meant she could push his buttons. Lucy eyed the jagged-edged blade he twirled in his right hand. ‘You want to stick it in me, big man? Reckon you can keep it up?’

He lost his cool and dove at her with a sudden flurry of slashing attacks that cut through the air in flashes of bright steel. Lucy retreated, dodging from side to side, staying just beyond his reach. She watched his motion, looking for patterns and strike points.

If Amarah was smart, he would have taken his reprisal the quick way and shot her dead where she stood. But here was someone who considered himself righteous and wronged, who had probably spent every day of his incarceration coming up with ways to get payback on the skinny black girl from Queens who had put him in that cell. He wanted to cut on her and take it slow.

Amarah snarled and changed tack, shifting his grip to go for a downward stabbing motion. Lucy didn’t let him get there. She stepped to him, coming inside her attacker’s reach to shorten the distance and hit him hard with a punch to the chest. She followed it up with a cross-hand move that was meant to disarm him, but Amarah had enough of his wits about him to deflect that approach and he reeled back.

Lucy cursed inwardly. They hadn’t been able to take any weapons with them when they left Sweden, and she felt naked without a gun. If their roles had been reversed, Amarah would have had two bullets in him by now, but this was going to have to go the long way round.

The terrorist went back at her, going for the stab again, and Lucy brought up her hands to block his strike – but it was a feint. Amarah deftly flipped the combat knife around his palm and hit her hard with the heavy pommel, cracking her across the cheekbone. Flares of pain lit up inside her head and she lost her pace.

She was too close to the wall, in danger of losing room to manoeuvre. As the thought occurred to her, it was already too late to react. Amarah grabbed at the thick folds of her abayat and shoved Lucy back. He slammed her bodily into a shade across one of the open windows, and she felt the wooden slats splinter apart across her shoulders under the force of the sudden impact.

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