High Force: A DCI Ryan Mystery (The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 5) by LJ Ross

Author:LJ Ross [Ross, LJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Edwards leaned back against the bonnet of his newly acquired car and watched the moon shining in the heavens. It dwarfed the people and houses far beneath who continued their ephemeral lives, watching television and talking about the latest celebrity gossip as if any of it mattered. He cast his eyes upward, past the cloudy ring of light pollution above the city, higher and higher, hoping that somebody would be watching him.

“Talk to me,” he commanded, closing his eyes to blot out the sound of mankind, hoping that it would be replaced by something ethereal and beautiful.

But, as always, there was a deafening silence.

He opened his eyes and considered the sky again, resplendent with stars. Pegasus and Ursa Major dominated and he was reminded of a time, long ago, when he had been gifted a telescope. What had been his most prized possession was forever lost to him now, hidden beneath the earth by years of dirt and overgrowth.

He wouldn’t think about that now.

All those massive burning balls of gas were named after mythical gods to inspire awe in ordinary, simple-minded people. One day, his name might join theirs, alongside Hercules and Jupiter. The Hacker would shine its fiery white light and the people would stand in awe of it. They would speak of the man who had risen above ordinary men.

He heard the rumble of an approaching vehicle and spotted the glimmer of headlights along the single-track lane. Quickly, he retrieved his rifle and melted into the shadow of a tree until he could see the car and its driver. When the familiar lines of a black Porsche Cayenne came into view, he lowered the rifle and emerged back into the moonlight.

* * *

Jimmy Moffa would have preferred an army of heavyweights to accompany him to meet a man like Edwards but he was suffering a temporary staffing problem made worse by the fact that his right-hand man was taking a necessary leave of absence from the public eye. The young lad standing in his place looked the part, with a scar running across his neck and thick, gym-honed muscles after six years of boxing at one of the best rings in the city. However, Tony’s scar came from a childhood fall and he was yet to prove himself a fighter outside the ring, judging by his failure to put down Frank Phillips earlier. In the ordinary way of things, Tony would have been given his marching orders after that display.

But good men were hard to come by and he needed somebody he could mould into the kind of creature he wanted. One thing that could certainly be said of Tony was that he wasn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the box, so he had high hopes that it wouldn’t take too long to train him.

“Door,” he ordered.

Tony jumped down from the driver’s seat to open his master’s door without needing to be told twice and Moffa stepped down from the back seat of his car, motioning for his driver-cum-bodyguard to follow him.

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