King of the Dead by Joseph Nassise

Author:Joseph Nassise
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780765327192
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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ROBERTSON

After getting Clearwater’s name from the clerk at the Majestic, Robertson put his people to work trying to track her down. Canvassing the neighborhood led to a sighting at a two-bit diner down the street from the hotel a few days earlier. Upon questioning the waitress, Robertson learned that Clearwater and her companions, whom he knew to be Hunt and Alexandrov, met with three other men before leaving together in a pair of SUVs. Soldier types, the waitress had called them, but that didn’t really give Robertson anything to go on. There’d been military personnel, from the regular army to the National Guard, in New Orleans since the hurricane; unless they’d been in uniform, there was no way to tell them apart.

The vehicles had been black, Yukons or Suburbans, something like that, according to the waitress, and no, she hadn’t thought to take down the license plates. Why should she? They weren’t of any interest to her.

It looked like the diner was a dead end.

That didn’t mean they were without recourse, however. Robertson assigned several local agents the task of digging into her background. Who was she? Where was she from? Did she have a record of past convictions? How about outstanding warrants?

While it certainly seemed like she was willingly aiding and abetting a fugitive, which itself was a federal crime, he told himself not to jump to conclusions. Perhaps she’d been taken captive by the other two. Given all the depraved things that Hunt had done over the years, kidnapping certainly wouldn’t be a surprise.

He’d know soon enough.

In less than an hour he had a decent-sized file on his desk detailing the life and times of one Denise Clearwater. It made for rather boring reading, actually.

Born and raised in San Diego, California to a middle-class family. Father and mother were both killed in an auto accident when she was sixteen. She attended the University of California for a year before moving to New Orleans and transferring to LSU. Moved to Massachusetts in 2003, or at least that’s when a driver’s license was issued to her at an address in Brookline.

No serious run-ins with the law, though she did have a penchant for speeding: four tickets in the last three years. She’d accepted responsibility on all of them and had paid the fines on time without argument.

Her credit report was limited, which was a little unusual. She had accounts in two major banks, one of which held a small nest egg that looked like she’d built it slowly over time, but no credit card history to speak of. It looked like she paid cash for most everything. She’d inherited the house in Brookline from a distant aunt, which probably explained the sudden move east, and with the mortgage paid off there was no real need for a credit history.

In other words, she appeared to be your average American, though one with less debt than most.

Not the kind of individual he’d expected to be found in the company of Alexandrov, a black marketer, never mind a confirmed killer like Hunt.

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