Face Value: A Wright & Tran Novel by Andrew Ian

Author:Andrew, Ian [Andrew, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: JohnHooper
Published: 2015-05-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Thursday Night. Epping Forest

RV1 was the Lord Cardigan Rise. A combination pub, restaurant and motel annex perched on top of a small hill in the gently undulating countryside to the west of Epping Forest. It had been Sammi’s best guess for a base of operations. Midway along the main expanse of woodland, it was in a small hamlet of houses and had a fairly good road running past it east to west. That road connected at both ends to relatively good north and south routes. Overall she had picked it because it offered rapid access to all of the surrounding area. When she had called and enquired about four rooms she was told that the separate motel annex only had six rooms in total and three of those had already been let. Sammi took the last three and agreed with the owner to have a small cot bed put into the third. Not that they would need it but it was what would have been expected of more normal guests. What she nor the rest of the team had known was just how remarkable her choice of a base had been.

The seven of them crowded into one of the bedrooms and variously smiled, laughed or shook their heads at the fact that from where they were sitting to the back of what they presumed was Illy and Yanina’s garden was less than five hundred yards in a direct line. The pub did sit to the wrong side of the east-west road and they would have to negotiate it before they could get to the rear of the house, but other than that it was a superb location.

“I’d say well done to me, but it was pure fluke,” Sammi said.

“Don’t knock it. I’d say it was about time we had some luck on this,” Kara responded. “All we have to do now is make sure that the house is actually hers and not a friend she was visiting.”

It had just gone 19:30 and despite their best attempts at drive by observations there had been no way to see if Yanina’s car was still parked at the house she had pulled into. Given the narrowness of Avey Lane there was also no way to leave a couple of cars in situ without them being easily spotted should Yanina drive back out.

What they needed was for it to get dark but they had at least an hour and a half to wait for the sun to go down. Double that for the night to get dark enough for them to venture forward and reconnoitre the house and its grounds.

“You never know Kara,” Dinger said from his cross-legged perch on the floor next to the room’s bed, “Our luck might well be changing. It’s the new moon tonight so all things being equal it’ll be as dark as we could want. But, right now, I’m fucking starving so what are we going to eat?”

They decided they had too much to do to allow

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