Fall by Candice Fox

Author:Candice Fox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2015-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

Hooky walked up the block to Town Hall, stood looking at the huge ornate building lit electric pink and yellow from floodlights in its filthy gardens. On the corner, a preacher asked crowds waiting at the huge intersection whether they were ready for God to return, because he was returning, and when he did he’d be merciless on the unprepared. A group of youths ebbed around her suddenly, then continued down George Street towards the cinema, slightly too loud and slightly too deliberate, carrying shopping bags. The lights changed and a hundred people flooded the great intersection, passed each other wordlessly like trained soldiers on the march, eyes averted.

She counted off some minutes on her sensible little gold and leather-band watch, her ‘office girl’ watch, as she called it, and then walked back down the hill and turned right into the laneway behind Kent Street. She kept her head bowed against the security cameras hanging above the loading zone adjacent to the fire escape belonging to 103 Kent Street. It was not likely her presence would be noted and the cameras searched for images of her, as she intended to take nothing from the building that would arouse suspicion. But Hooky never shied away from extra precautions. The proactive con artist was the successful con artist. She opened the fire escape door she had left propped open when she dashed through the building with Ian’s swipe card, and entered the stairwell.

Being overly cautious was only one of the many natural behaviours that made a successful con artist. Amy had discovered each in turn the hard way, because people like her – liars, cheats, shadow people – were impossible to find and were sole operators when they did reveal themselves. Tandem teams of con artists, Amy had discovered, were an invention of Hollywood. It took a being of broken, malfunctioning or completely absent morality to do what she did, and the chances of two of them collaborating successfully required each member of the team to be incapable of loyalty yet be helplessly enslaved by it. No, real con artists were loners. They were meticulous, over-prepared, adaptive and artful. They didn’t look back.

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