Level 26 : Dark Origins by Anthony E. Zuiker

Author:Anthony E. Zuiker [Zuiker, Anthony E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9780451231727
Publisher: PENGUIN Group (USA) Inc.
Published: 2010-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

chapter 51

New York City / West River Drive

Thursday / 11 P.M. EST

Sqweegel handed the cab driver the money, told him to keep the change. The dirty yellow Crown Vic peeled away a moment later, leaving its passenger standing on the last sidewalk on the western edge of Manhattan. The driver had been listening to filthy garbage on the radio. If Sqweegel hadn’t had other plans, the driver would have paid for his indiscretion. Maybe strap him down somewhere and drill some holes in his ears, freeing them to hear divine sounds. Divine silence.

No time for that now, though. The horses were waiting. And his hunter, still spinning his wheels on the other coast, would be lost without another message soon.

Out over the Hudson, lights twinkled on the Jersey side. Sqweegel liked turning his back on the ziggurats of New York City. So many worshipped them, so blindly. They were useful to Sqweegel only in that they gave him countless places to hide. If he wanted to, he could disappear in the concrete slabs of Manhattan for ten, twenty years, without anyone knowing where he’d gone. And all the while, he’d be watching. Like an angel.

Tonight, though, wasn’t a night for hiding.

Sqweegel stepped off the sidewalk and made his way down a dirt path. He was decked out like a soldier home on leave from Afghanistan, one weekend only—combat boots, camouflage pants, flak jacket, hoodie, black cap, sunglasses. A little U.S. Army, a little Brooklyn. No one would give him a second glance.

Nor would they wonder about the rectangular white cardboard box tucked under his arm. Flowers for Mom, or maybe a sweetheart. A dozen fresh-cut roses to say I hope you haven’t been screwing somebody else while I was getting my ass shot off in the Hindu Kush.

At the end of the path was a wooden fence topped with barbed wire. On the front was an etched wooden sign, the grooves painted a faded gold:

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